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* In an story-arc of ''Series/GhostWriter'', the main characters' school falls victim to a hacker known by the moniker of "Max Mouse". Some girls '''are''' in the list of suspects from the beginning, but not until the suspect list is narrowed to just two people is it certain that the hacker is in fact a girl.

This is a sub-trope of SamusIsAGirl and happens to be the techie sister of the WrenchWench and HotScientist. Related to the common myth that ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet.

Not to be confused with female ''hacks'', AKA journalists.

* Cameron Howe from ''Series/HaltandCatchFire''. She is a hot shot computer wiz that drops out of school to work for Cardiff Electric on their PC. She writes the BIOS code and comes up with and develops the interactive OS idea. Gordon's wife Donna Clark, a programmer herself, once calls her code "elegant, like music". [[spoiler: She lives up to her name in one episode, where she hacks into a bank and steals money for Cardiff Electric on John Bosworth's orders. He later takes the fall for it when the FBI raids Cardiff Electric. His lawyer pays his bail almost immediately, though.]]

This is a sub-trope of SamusIsAGirl and happens to be the techie sister of the WrenchWench. Related to the common myth that ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet.

->'''Aiden:''' You don't look 17.
->'''Clara:''' Do I look like a ''bad boy''?

* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' has this with Clara Lille, the hacker acting as MissionControl to Aiden at the start of the game. Her alias "Badboy17" [[ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet fools him into thinking she was male.]] It gets mentioned in their first face-to-face conversation, though surprisingly not by Aiden himself:

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%%* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has Sombra, one of the world's best hackers. She used her ability to make herself money as a orphaned child (such as stealing police data and selling it to street gangs) but she got addicted to it. At some point she stumbled upon a massive conspiracy and got discovered. Afterwards, she went off the grid, getting augmented and erasing everything she was from the system. Since then, she's joined Talon for unknown reasons and is an expert at trolling Reaper.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has Sombra, one of the world's best hackers. She used her ability to make herself money as a orphaned child (such as stealing police data and selling it to street gangs) but she got addicted to it. At some point she stumbled upon a massive conspiracy and got discovered. Afterwards, she went off the grid, getting augmented and erasing everything she was from the system. Since then, she's joined Talon for unknown reasons and is an expert at trolling Reaper.
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* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': Inverted. Junpei initially thinks that [[MissFanservice Lotus]] is a belly dancer due to her figure and her clothing style ([[spoiler: she is, but it's a hobby]]) but is quite shocked to discover that Lotus is a security consultant who had previously worked in Silicon Valley. He learns this when Lotus [[DungeonBypass hacks a computer terminal rather than waste time solving a puzzle]].

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* ''Overwatch'' has Sombra, one of the world's best hackers. She used her ability to make herself money as a orphaned child (such as stealing police data and selling it to street gangs) but she got addicted to it. At some point she stumbled upon a massive conspiracy and got discovered. Afterwards, she went off the grid, getting augmented and erasing everything she was from the system. Since then, she's joined Talon for unknown reasons and is an expert at trolling Reaper.

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The Cops are hot on the trail of a hacker who is [[TheCracker bringing down banks, shutting off traffic lights, and just generally causing mayhem]].

They are given a list of possible suspects, all of whom happen to be men. After either narrowing down the list to one or two suspects, or dismissing all the suspects completely, the hero or his sidekick stumbles onto a startling revelation. The Hacker is a woman.

This trope only counts when everyone thinks it's a boy and it's later revealed the hacker is a female. It is not a list of generalized female hackers.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Everyone thinks Radical Edward is a boy, [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer even after meeting her]]. Imagine the shock when her father shows up and gives his "baby girl" a hug! Then again, her father also forgets that she's a girl.
* ''VisualNovel/PrincessLover'': Teppei is surprised to learn that his maid, Yuu Fujikura, heads an entire team of hackers (all maids, like herself). It even becomes a pivotal plot point, late in the series, when she spearheads a cyberspace counter-offensensive to regain control of the Arima Building from a group of terrorists, while simultaneously helping to disarm several remote detonated charges planted throughout the building.

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* This is TruthInTelevision for most female programmers and computer technicians (whether they fit the general usage of "hacker" or not), since it's a very male dominated profession.
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Not to be confused with female ''hacks'', AKA journalists -- for them, see HotScoop.

* ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Furious 7]]'' goes this route in all its implications [[spoiler: [[SamusIsAGirl with Ramsey]], the hacker that needs to be rescued from a terrorist organization by Dom and crew]].

* Root in ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. As a child, she was seen speedrunning 'Main/OregonTrail' at a pace that turned the graphics into a blur, and as an adult she got revenge for her murdered friend by stealing from a drug cartel's bank accounts in the murderer's name. She was every bit Finch's equal, even tag-teaming with him when a hacking job required two people working simultaneously. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} She also worshiped the Machine, whom she referred to frequently as 'God'.]]

* Root in ''Series/PersonOfInterest''.

* In ''WhiteCollar'' episode "Taking Account" Peter arranges a meeting with a hacker known as Vulture. He tries scoping out the men in the area, but it's Mozzie who realizes the Vulture is a woman.

* Lisbeth Salander from ''TheMillenniumTrilogy'' uses this to help her hide from the police.
** In a nod to ''Film/TheMatrix'', there's an actual hacker character known as Trinity in the third book. Unfortunately, he turns out to be a guy.

* Claudia, when she is hacking into the Warehouse in the first few episodes of ''{{Warehouse 13}}'', is spoken of with male pronouns until they learn her identity.

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* Felicity Smoak from ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' is basically this trope personified. She is a wildly talented programmer who frequently shocks her colleagues and enemies with the fact that Oliver Queen's coding expert is a blonde woman with an impressive, feminine, fashion sense.

* Felicity Smoak from ''Series/Arrow'' is basically this trope personified. She is a wildly talented programmer who frequently shocks her colleagues and enemies with the fact that Oliver Queen's coding expert is a blonde woman with an impressive, feminine, fashion sense.