No one actually gets hacked, not even companies.

How it works generally from what I understand (for companies), is someone will call tech support and ask who the head tech is. Tech support will say "James" (may take multiple calls to tech support to get someone to blab). Then, with that info, they may then be able to google that info or keep asking till they find james last name. They discover its "James Ben", they may call for more accurate info. Then they'll keep calling for little tidbits of info for the server names the company may use. Then finally with enough info "Hi I am james Ben, I am locked out of access to server XYZ" and the lower tech support will think that is their boss, james ben, who then gives access to the server to the fake james ben.

But why would a lower tech support (or higher tech support if need higher access, example remains) say "I dont think you are my boss, not giving you anything" when that would likely get them fired if it really was their boss. These days might even use AI to sound like james ben.

So it isn't like the movies or matrix where you just hop on a computer and do a ton of keyboard stuff. Might even do it simply by sending keyloggers/viruses, the movies make it look fancy, but its pretty mundane from my understanding.

However that isn't hacking, that is either someone or multiple someones giving enough little tidbits of info for someone (or multiple someones) to get enough info to get inside a company.

Likewise, on steam, clicking a link and giving your account info is also not hacking. The person GAVE that info freely for the person to log onto that account, but not actually hacking. Might even have a virus on the PC tracking everything, but that also isn't really hacking either.

There is also the thing where you overload a website or companies servers, but that isn't hacking either.

So is there any actual hacking going on? I imagine if there IS, its extremely rare. But the word "hacking" envisions the matrix, doing fancy keyboard things to force yourself on someones computer or server. But it isn't, because that person freely gave that info. So I dunno what would actually hacking be.