Example Sentences

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Cutting off 100 hospitals in Romania from the internet stopped the hackers in their tracks, buying time to work out how bad the attack was.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

With hospitals offline, the cyber-experts worked closely with the Hippocrates maker to work out how many systems had been infected and kick the hackers out.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Several months later, footage and images leaked after teenage hackers targeted the company.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

Over the past year, Russian hackers have stolen Microsoft 365 credentials from victims as part of a sneaky and extremely hard-to-stop technique that involves bogus Microsoft Teams meetings, Volexity said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Hideo has indeed hired a few hackers in the past—to help him work out bugs inside Warcross—but they were way more experienced, and probably with no criminal records.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu