n. Secret information, especially of a military or political nature, obtained by breaking into a computer system.
2001
Hackint
Hacking Intelligence — information that has been obtained by hacking into a computer system and used for military purposes.
Hacking Intelligence — information that has been obtained by hacking into a computer system and used for military purposes.
2001 (earliest)
According to a US presidential commission, the global population with the computer skills required for Hackint operations and other forms of cyber-attack against important Western targets has grown from a few thousand 20 years ago to about 19 million today.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, we can now walk into the Kremlin and ask President Yeltsin's aides if they lost any warheads today. The answer one gets is mockingly called ASKINT within the intelligence community.