Ugh, this article gets a number of things wrong. "Hacking" a portal in Ingress is just resource collection, sort of like visiting pokestops in PoGo (in fact, th

Ugh, this article gets a number of things wrong. "Hacking" a portal in Ingress is just resource collection, sort of like visiting pokestops in PoGo (in fact, the portals are pokestops in Niantic's database). You have to "capture" portals by destroying them. Of course, if the portal is owned by the other team, they can recharge them as you attack them essentially making you play against other players in real time. Ingress is pretty competitive that way, since you play directly against the other team.