Will Said: I take it that the hacker was a white-hat hacker or a grey-hat hacker (If you're not sure what those mean, Wikipedia can tell you).
I notice that posts submitted within the last few days are missing. Fortunately the hacking had in no way interfered with the private messaging system. I have confidence an incident like that isn't going to happen for a long time.
I think you misunderstand the terms. He was definitely black-hat.