hack

verb [I] (COMPUTING)

/hæk/

Definition

› to access someone else’s computer system without permission in order to obtain or change information: Someone managed to hack into the company database.

(Definition of hack verb (COMPUTING) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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