exfiltration
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Desktop agents are still at an early research stage and come with a huge number of risks, including data deletion and exfiltration.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023
"We are lucky there hasn't been any exfiltration of data because that would have been embarrassing."
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2023
Multiple officials said the attack was targeted at individual email accounts, rather than a large-scale exfiltration of data, which Chinese hackers are suspected of having done before.
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2023
After a final night in his apartment, Gordievsky set out on the last and most perilous leg of his exfiltration plan.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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