I hate how media groups all negative technological behavior as hacking. She abused her mother’s account which seemed to have more access than required. She didn’t hack anything.
Agreed, but I think we have to accept that the mainstream definition of hacking is, "doing something you aren't allowed to do to a computer or computer system."
I think it is worse than that - it is bullshit conflation meaning games so they can charge for something not allowed and demonize them as scary figures.