[cgseller]

Information accessed that was not supposed to be accessed is a hack. If it was trivial or required 100 steps and 2 years of planning, the data was hacked as it was accessed w/o express permission or intent to be made available.

While most people think of hack as malicious or required some kind of super geek, in reality is gaining access to something that you were not supposed to have access to (e.g. "
use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system." -- dictionary.com)