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Prison Time For Manager Who Hacked Ex-Employer's FTP Server, Email Account (bleepingcomputer.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: Jason Needham, 45, of Arlington, Tennessee was sentenced last week to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release for hacking his former company's FTP server and the email account of one of his former colleagues. Needham did all the hacking after he left his former employer, Allen & Hoshall (A&H), a design and engineering firm for which he worked until 2013. Needham left to create his own company named HNA Engineering together with a business partner. HNA is also a design and engineering firm. According to court documents obtained by Bleeping Computer, between May 2014 and March 2016, Needham hacked into the email account of one of his former co-workers. From this account, the FBI says Needham took sensitive business information, company fee structures, marketing plans, project proposals, and lists of credentials for A&H's FTP server. A&H rotated its FTP credentials every six months, but Needham acquired new logins from his former colleague's email account.
Or "using a password you picked up while still at the firm"?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
The kind of stuff he wanted gets stale very fast. That's why he had to keep "hacking".
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
"Using access credentials that you shouldn't have had, after you left" equals "hacking" now.
Right. That word really doesn't mean squat any longer. Thus we have:
Anything can be hacking and anyone can be a hacker, as the prosecutor likes it.
May you live in Shakespearean times, good sir.
English language usage tip:
hacker = someone who uses a computer against its owner's usage policy
hacking = any action someone takes to use a computer against its owner's usage policy
The sense of "hacker" as describing a person with great computer skills is now an archaic usage.