hacker
hacker — 名詞
1. A person who secretly enters a computer system or network that belongs to someon
駭客
未經許可入侵他人電腦系統的人
A person who secretly enters a computer system or network that belongs to someone else, usually with the aim of stealing, changing, or looking at private information, or of causing damage to the system.
A hacker broke into the hospital's database and stole thousands of patient records.
一名駭客入侵了醫院的資料庫，竊取了數千筆病患紀錄。
break into + database for illegal data theft
An online retailer hired a security firm after hackers used fake logins to steal customer data.
一家線上零售商在駭客利用假帳號登入竊取客戶資料後，聘請了一家資安公司。
collocation: fake logins for credential-based attacks
The IT team traced the hacker's IP address and blocked access before any credit card data left the system.
IT 團隊追查到那一名駭客的 IP 位址並封鎖其存取權限，信用卡資料因此未被盜走。
Omar warned his colleagues that hackers often target small businesses with weak passwords.
Omar 提醒同事，駭客經常鎖定密碼設定薄弱的小型企業。
A student noticed a failing grade had become an A, and the school confirmed a hacker had altered the records.
一名學生發現自己不及格的成績變成了 A，校方隨後確認有駭客竄改了紀錄。
- cybercriminal
More specific — focuses on the criminal/legal aspect rather than the technical method
- intruder
Broader — can apply to physical break-ins as well as digital ones
文法句型
hacker + verb + into + [system/network/database]
用法筆記
Frequently appears in news reports about cybersecurity incidents. The subject of the verb is often a specific individual or an organized group using automated tools.
常見錯誤
2. A person who secretly accesses another person's telephone or voicemail system wi
電話駭客
未經許可侵入他人電話系統的人
A person who secretly accesses another person's telephone or voicemail system without permission, usually to listen to recorded messages.
The reporter realised a phone hacker had accessed her voicemails when she found calls she had never made.
那名記者發現收件匣裡有她從未打過的電話記錄，才意識到有電話駭客入侵了她的語音信箱。
realise + when + found calls for discovery pattern
After the newspaper phone hacking scandal broke, Henrik changed his voicemail password the next day.
報紙電話駭客醜聞爆發後，Henrik 隔天就更改了他的語音信箱密碼。
collocation: phone hacking scandal broke
Phone hackers broke into a celebrity's voicemail because the system still used the default password 0000.
電話駭客入侵了一名名人的語音信箱，因為系統仍使用預設密碼 0000。
Police arrested a hacker after tracing his logins to over two thousand private voicemails.
警方追查到一名駭客的登入記錄與兩千多則私人語音信箱有關聯，隨後將他逮捕。
A government minister resigned after the Guardian revealed that a phone hacker had listened to his calls for months.
一名政府部長在《衛報》揭露一名電話駭客竊聽他的通話長達數月之後，辭職下台。
- eavesdropper
Broader — can apply to any secret listening, not just via phones
- wiretapper
More specific to phone tapping but somewhat dated in modern usage
文法句型
phone hacker + verb + [phone/voicemail/system]
用法筆記
Narrower than sense 1 — the target is always a phone or voicemail system. Frequently appears in the compound 'phone hacker' or the set phrase 'phone-hacking scandal,' especially in British journalism.
常見錯誤
3. A person with strong skills in computer programming who enjoys finding clever wa
程式高手
擅長程式設計與解決電腦問題的人
A person with strong skills in computer programming who enjoys finding clever ways to solve technical problems, build software, or make a computer system do new things.
A group of hackers in Berlin built a free app that teaches Japanese through daily news stories.
一群柏林的程式高手開發了一款免費應用程式，透過每日新聞來教日語。
group of hackers in [city] + built + app for collaborative projects
Sayaka is a skilled hacker who built a tool that catches bugs in medical software before release.
Sayaka 是一名技術純熟的程式高手，她開發了一套能在上線前找出醫療軟體錯誤的工具。
skilled hacker + built + tool that catches bugs for positive sense
The company's best hacker fixed a server bug that had been crashing the payment system in under an hour.
公司裡最厲害的程式高手不到一小時就修好了一個讓付款系統不斷當機的伺服器錯誤。
Many hackers contribute bug fixes and new features to open-source code editors in their spare time.
許多程式高手利用空閒時間為開放原始碼的程式碼編輯器貢獻錯誤修復和新功能。
Dylan started out as a teenage hacker tinkering with Linux code and later became a senior software engineer.
Dylan 從十幾歲就開始摸索 Linux 程式碼，後來成為一名資深軟體工程師。
- programmer
Broader — every hacker is a programmer but not every programmer is a hacker in the skilled sense
- developer
More professional in tone, less emphasis on creative enthusiasm
- coder
Informal, similar level of enthusiasm, but less specific about skill level
文法句型
hacker + verb + [code/software/problem/solution]
用法筆記
The original computing sense, still common in developer communities rather than news media. Distinguished from sense 1 by context — words like 'skilled,' 'build,' 'contribute,' or 'solve' signal the positive meaning. In technical circles, this is the default sense.