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Cybersecurity event (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hack

(Other definitions for hack that I've seen before include "Wildly kick; dull writer" , "persistent cough" , "get information illegally" , "Chop roughly - mediocre journalist" , "try to access unauthorised data" .)

I've seen this clue in the LA Times.
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