During the late 1990s and into the new millennium, hacking became a popular term for the act of breaking in, tampering with, or maliciously destroying private information contained in computer networks. The FBI's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) reported 17,672 hacking incidents in 2000, a 79 percent increase over 1999 figures.
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