A nifty trick or shortcut that is useful. "Check out this hack to increase your productivity."
Accessing something you shouldn't. "They hacked into the database."

A lot of times they sort of get used in conjunction to describe interesting ways to gain access to secure systems, but using it to describe accessing insecure things you shouldn't is still a valid usage of the phrase.

That said I definitely wanna see the company face charges for this, this is insane.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago (5 children)

No, this was a data leak. The word "hack" has legal implications and shifts the blame away from the company and onto the individual who discovered the leak.

[–] Pastime0293@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

😂

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