> Being "hacked" means your system's security was breached, Nah. They claimed the site was rendered unfit for purpose by malicious attackers. If you don't th

> Being "hacked" means your system's security was breached, Nah. They claimed the site was rendered unfit for purpose by malicious attackers. If you don't think denial of service is a security event, you'd better start writing lots of angry letters to MITRE, because we need to revoke about 90% of the CVEs that have been issued over the years. I'm not sure how to phrase this politely, but you are not the arbiter of language, TechCrunch is not beholden to any higher a linguistic standard than anyone else, and the word hack has been associated with DDoS attacks for years and years (a small sampling of references follow). I don't particularly care about the FCC or this event, but this seems like a really strange hill to die on. Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually intend to expire on a topological elevation gradient; this is merely a figure of speech that means something else to some people (cf https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hill_to_die_on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hill_to_die_on). "This class of hack, known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, has been around for a while.": http://fortune.com/2016/10/22/ddos-attack-hacker-profit/ http://fortune.com/2016/10/22/ddos-attack-hacker-profit/ "What is a DDoS Hack and How Do You Avoid Them?" (video): https://www.wired.com/2016/01/hacker-lexicon-what-are-dos-and-ddos-attacks/ https://www.wired.com/2016/01/hacker-lexicon-what-are-dos-an... "DDoS hack attack targets Church of Scientology": https://www.scmagazine.com/ddos-hack-attack-targets-church-of-scientology/article/554145/ https://www.scmagazine.com/ddos-hack-attack-targets-church-o... "Hack Attack Gums Up Authorize.Net": https://www.wired.com/2004/09/hack-attack-gums-up-authorize-net/ https://www.wired.com/2004/09/hack-attack-gums-up-authorize-...