[hotep99]

I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably a stretch to describe this as "hacking" when it was probably more akin to fraudulently filling out a couple of forms.

[mensetmanusman]

The term hacker continues to evolve and spread beyond sql overflow exploits into more mundane social api exploits.

[mingus88]

Mitnick was the most notorious “hacker” for decades and I don’t believe he was ever known for touching code.

His hacks were largely social engineering and manipulation of phone systems to enable more social engineering

https://ju.acm.org/magazine/articles/kevin-mitnick.html

[tarboreus]

He had a ton of proprietary code after a while so he did do some non-social stuff. But that was his main area.