verb
- past tense of exfiltrate; to secretly remove or extract (a person, data, or material) from a place, organization, or system, typically without authorization.
Usage: often used in military, intelligence, cybersecurity, and espionage contexts; can refer to physical removal of people or digital theft of information
Examples
- The spy exfiltrated classified documents from the embassy.
- Hackers exfiltrated customer data from the company's servers.
- The rescue team exfiltrated the hostages under cover of darkness.
- Sensitive files were exfiltrated before the security breach was discovered.
- The agent exfiltrated the informant to a safe location.
- Investigators found that proprietary research had been exfiltrated to a competitor.