Example Sentences

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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

Another key message was that hospitals should not contact the hackers or pay the ransom.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

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

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

Millions of digital home devices in the U.S. have pre-installed backdoor software, creating residential proxy networks used by nation-state hackers to mask cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Unlike the hackers in movies who always scurried about in the shadows, Charlotte liked to engage people in conversation.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti