noun / verb

hack

HAK/hæk/

Access to a computer system by bypassing its security.

The company investigates a hack that exposes customers' private records.

A neutral cybersecurity scene: an unauthorized laptop connection approaches a locked server symbol on screen, no code or instructions.

Etymology

hackEnglishcomputer enthusiast or intruder

Hack apparently formed from hacker, whose computer use is said to have first described enthusiastic software experimenters before naming unauthorized intruders. Its deeper connection with chopping or routine hired work remains uncertain.

In context

Data and Knowledge Modeling and Analysis7:49

security is is a big problem someone trying to hack your system if they're hacking into your system it's probably causing network or system behavior that is abnormal in some way

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More examples

Someone hacked into my email account last night.
Attackers try to hack the server by guessing weak passwords.
The bank discovered two hacks during its security review.

Forms

hack · hacks · hacked · hacking

hacker noun — Someone who gains unauthorized computer access.

Similar words

breach: Emphasizes a security failure, which may not involve computer intrusion.
intrusion: Emphasizes unauthorized entry rather than the method of bypassing security.