I think you should apply this logic but in reverse.
Just because those people call themselves "hackers" - or media calls them that - doesn't mean that you, also a hacker, should be personally offended to the degree that you willingly or unwillingly try to diminish their culpability and shift the blame to the idiots that made it possible in the first place.
Again, there's only _one_ reprehensible act in all of this, and you're dancing around how bad it is with pedantry.
I'm sure you're aware of the fallacy that begins with "not all men...", and that's how you sound to me right now.