I agree, but this would mean that almost anything can’t be called hacking, bc it usually relies on vulnerabilities and implementation defects. If something is poorly encrypted and you retrieve data, you didn’t hack because it wasn’t encrypted to begin with. That can’t be the standard.
There is a line, it is fuzzy, but if all you did was find something which was there for anyone to find, I would place that firmly on the not hacking side. If it was rot 13 I would put that marginally closer to hacking than this.
