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* Futaba Sakura from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' is a teenage coding prodigy who goes by the alias "Alibaba" ([[spoiler:and previously, "Medjed"]]). The Phantom Thieves initially assume Alibaba is male, but soon put two and two together and realise Alibaba and Futaba are the same person.

They are given a list of possible suspects, all of whom happen to be geeky men who are [=PhD=] students in computer science and tech gurus wearing hoodies and living in a monitor-filled HackerCave in an AbandonedWarehouse. After either narrowing down the list to one or two suspects or dismissing all the suspects completely, the hero or his sidekick stumbles into a startling revelation: the hacker is a woman.

* ''Film/{{Hackers}}'': Acid Burn is an alpha hacker so she had a coterie of boyhackers who think she is awesome, but Crash Override is surprised to discover she is a girl. Dade keeps trying to get her to go out with him, but she forces him to prove that he's a better hacker before she does. [[spoiler:In the end, after their date, he finally tells her that she's elite. She tells him that this is all he had to do to get her to go out with him instead of trying to go the normal route]].

* In a 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.
* 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.]]

* Root in ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. As a child, she was seen speedrunning 'VideoGame/TheOregonTrail' at a pace that turned the graphics into a blur, and as a mid-teen 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'.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "The Girl with the Dungeons & Dragons Tattoo", the hacker that Dick Roman uses to crack a hard-drive is Charlie Bradbury... a woman, and the titular "girl".

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' sourcebook "Paranormal Animals of North America" creature descriptions are discussed in comments made by shadowrunners and other more or less knowledgeable types. On of the more sensible and well-informed commenters is known as "Doc". Near the end of the book, Doc mentions being about to submit a description of a new species named ''(genus) amandae''. Why "Amanda?" the other commenters cluelessly ask. Because that's my name, Doc replies. Apart from the unusual decision to use her first name instead of her surname to name the species, the commenters really oughtn't have been ''that'' surprised, since female hackers/shadowrunners are common in the 2050 of the game, and a fair share of the previous commenters have very obviously been female.

* Root in ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. As a child, she was seen speedrunning 'VideoGame/TheOregonTrail' 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'.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'' has Webs, a female spider who’s the hacker of the eponymous group.

* In the 1972 series ''Search'' (a science fiction detective series, in which the field agent was remotely supported by a room full of specialists), Ginny Golden played Ginny Keach, a data specialist who could hack any system.

* ''Film/{{Hackers}}'': Acid Burn is an alpha hacker so she had a coterie of boyhackers who thnk she is awesome, but Crash Override is surprised to discover she is a girl. Dade keeps trying to get her to go out with him, but she forces him to prove that he's a better hacker before she does. [[spoiler:In the end, after their date, he finally tells her that she's elite. She tells him that this is all he had to do to get her to go out with him instead of trying to go the normal route]].