Gaining unauthorised access is hacking (well, cracking), no matter whether they used skill or not to do so.
Sorry just thought i'd say ¬_¬
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
It's still gaining unauthorized access, Shadow. It is "cracking", as a hacker was someone very skilled (because they could hack the system till it worked or something like that).