But what about other websites that you’re a member of? Have you ever had an account on one of the following websites/services? So have you actually ever been ‘pwned’? Maybe! You may have gotten a new credit card after Target or Home Depot were hacked. If your website has ever been hacked or you’ve ever been the victim of identity theft (or someone beat you at online chess), you’ve been ‘pwned’. For ‘hackers’, this term refers to hacking into a website and retrieving large amounts of information, usually in the form of passwords, email addresses, or credit card numbers. In computer games, this is when one player defeats another player, usually by a large margin. ‘Pwn’ is an internet slang term that refers to winning or defeating one’s opponent online. My high school English teacher would break my legs if she knew I was going to start a blog post with a “The dictionary defines…” statement, but in this case I feel that I must.
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