"megahack" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015 July 10, Graeme Virtue, “Friday’s best TV”, in The Guardian",
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        "(computing) A massive hack of a computer system."
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        "(falconry) A large-scale hack, or facility for releasing juvenile raptors."
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