The very first hack came in 1878 when the phone company, Bell Telephone, was started. A group of teenage boys, hired to run the switchboards, would disconnect or misdirect calls. The first authentic computer hackers came in the 1960s.

When did the hack begin?

The hack began in at least March 2020, and those responsible had "demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex tradecraft", the Cisa said.

When was the first time hacker defined?

An article from MIT's student paper The Tech used the term hacker in this context already in 1963 in its pejorative meaning for someone messing with the phone system. ... There are some subtle overlaps, however, since basic knowledge about computer security is also common within the programmer subculture of hackers.