That word again

In the news recently, this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/10/uk-uncut-hacks-vodafone-website

Basically, Vodafone held a competition called 'World of Difference' for people from charities, the winners of which got their charity work funded for [x] amount of time, plus a blog published on Vodafone's website. At least two, probably more of these charitable people are a little miffed at Vodafone's tax avoidance, as detailed in Private Eye, which is currently estimated at £6 billion, massively overshadowing the amount Vodafone have donated to charity. So they gave their account passwords to the protest group UK Uncut, who promptly began posting messages detailing Vodafone's alleged account figures all over Vodafone's website. Obviously, this was immensely funny.

What annoys me is that all the major news outlets are once again using the term 'hacked' inappropriately, as they did/still are doing during the News of the World voicemail scandal. The accounts were not hacked, they were accessed using the correct passwords with the account owners' consent, although admittedly not with the consent of Vodafone. If I unlock my front door and tell you to go inside, nobody would say that you broke in, even if my landlord doesn't like you. Why do the press seem to like using the word 'hack' so much, is hacking becoming sexy or something?

Rant over.