Way back in college, I talked myself into doing a white-hat hack of a service another student was running that I valued highly. "White hat" describes someone a

Way back in college, I talked myself into doing a white-hat hack of a service another student was running that I valued highly. "White hat" describes someone acting on behalf of the owner of the system being tested. It sounds like you acted on your own and thus were grey hat hacking. I only bring this up because it has different ramifications, legal, social, and otherwise.