pwned

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hackingsecurity

Slang for having been thoroughly defeated or compromised.

From a likely typo of "owned" in gaming culture, "pwned" spread to security to mean an account or system that has been taken. It is immortalized in "Have I Been Pwned", the service that checks whether your address appears in known breaches.

Also known as: pwn, owned, pwnage

Sources

  • gaming / hacker slang, early 2000s

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