Like hacker (for a time?) was used by the media (for a time?) to mean exclusively cyberattacker, instead of someone who were IT enthusiasts who used clever appr

Like hacker (for a time?) was used by the media (for a time?) to mean exclusively cyberattacker, instead of someone who were IT enthusiasts who used clever approaches to problems. There was an attempt to use the term “cracker” for those who attacked IT systems to differentiate from “hackers” who merely explored and perhaps enhanced those systems.