Hijacks often end with sackloads of cash being exchanged for the captured vessel and crew.

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Performance hijacks happen when people lose their access to resources in clutch situations.

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Malicious software that hijacks cellphones to compromise bank accounts or send costly premium text messages may be dangerous.

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As sweat races down the faces of finalists and Idol's stage manager nervously shuffles about, the host hijacks the crowd's attention.

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Katie Nagel lost her life, it appears, to intimate partner violence and homicide, a crime that hijacks eight to ten lives a day.

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Now security researchers have found at least one specimen of cybercriminal software that responds with the next logical countermeasure: It hijacks the phone, too.

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Unlike a typical bot-net, which hijacks PCs with malicious software, that network of unwitting proxies wouldn't leave anything behind on victims' machines, making the attack harder to trace.

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Emotional outbursts known as amygdala hijacks are particularly destructive.

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One is called Totsi and it's the South African slang for thug or hoodlum, and it's a story of a violent criminal who finds redemption after he inadvertently abducts a baby who was in the back of a car that he hijacks.

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Hijacks tend to reoccur.

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