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Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper "hack".
In an age where "willfully giving out your account password" is called hacking, here I'd call it tomato or tomato.
Social Engineering is hacking cmv.
Social engineering has always been a form of hacking.
No, because I agree.
There's usually an element of that with cracking passwords. Even if you just try and pick a good wordlist for a target you're already engaging in a way. The more you know about them the shorter the wordlist. And if you spend enough time getting to know shit about them you can reduce the wordlist to one entry because they told you the password. In a way. It's not necessarily a completely different process is my point.
It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it's probably safe to say that your view doesn't need to be changed.
You can argue it's a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.
But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.
That's called a PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer.
PEBKAC
That's cracking, not hacking. If you're going to be pedantic, be correct.
However you want to phrase it, they're very different problems with different solutions.
"Someone picked the lock on my door and got into my house" is meaningfully distinct from "Someone stole my keys".
It’s pronounced tomato
Potato potato
You can keep your nasty chips