what do “hackers” mean by finding a “vulnerability”. It’s hard to understand how there can be a gap in code that grants that much access.

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The vast majority of vulnerabilities are people. People are the weakest part of any security. You’d be surprised how much personal information people are willing to share online. And those same people have passwords related to their life information they share online. Half of those “quizes” back in the day were simply data phishing scams.