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Honestly hacking is such a low bar and it always has been.
There are some really intelligent and sophisticated hacks out there sure, but most companies can be penetrated by script kiddies & social engineering.
"We slammed a language model at 3 companies and Burton entire rivers and Forrest worth of energy to do it and after using a bunch of premade human tooling it got in because joe left his password as "password1" and never set up second factor auth"