Yes, here. But not in the Wall Street Journal. To everybody in the world bar a few hundred of us here, they are using the correct terminology. It's probably best to let it go.

In their eyes, hacking is exploiting a weakness in a system to do something the system was not originally intended or designed to do.

But in the end, nobody cares.

yeah, but why is it called hacker news then?

So both uses of "hacker" can claim legitimacy. Perhaps that's as it should be. Maybe we shouldn't try to completely segregate the unauthorized from the creative. I'm tempted to say language knows best.

wasn't it stated multiple times that the people who break into computer systems are not to be called [...]

Stated by whom? This is the problem with the term "cracker". It's an artificial concoction (like "womyn") designed to make a point. That's why nobody uses it.

I assumed it was community consensus to condemn the abuse of the word "hacker" by the media.

But maybe HN is too cognitive dissociated from the hacker community to have a productive discussion going on about this topic.