有人曾经对黑客年龄这方面进行过调查，组成黑客的主要群体是18-30岁之间的年轻人，大多是男性，不过也有很多女性加入到这个行列。他们大多是在校的学生，因为他们对计算机有着很强的求知欲，且好奇心强、精力旺盛等诸类因素，这都是使他们步入了黑客殿堂的原因之一。还有一些黑客大多都有自己的事业或工作，大致分为：程序员、资深安全员、安全研究员、职业间谍、安全顾问等。当然这些人的技术和水平是刚刚入门的“小黑客”无法与之相比的，不过他们也是从这一步一点一点地摸索过来的。[1] -Someone once told hacker ages been investigated in this regard, the composition of the major groups of hackers are young people between 18-30 years old, mostly male, but there are a lot of women to join the ranks. Most of them are students in the school, because they have a strong thirst for knowledge of computers, and the curious, energetic and other various categories of factors, this is one of the reasons so that they entered the hall hackers. Some hackers most of them have their own business or work, divided into: programmer, senior security officer, security researchers, career spies, security advisors. Of course, the level of technology and those who are just getting started　Little hackers　can not be compared, but they are also a little bit　this step to fumble over. [1]