Two sides to every story, we don't know the details but I would be surprised if Burke didn't do at least something nefarious. Then again, found him supremely annoying back when he regularly posted here so maybe that clouds my mind. I just remember him desperately trying to sneak mentions of him being a ladies man into any discussion possible.
The story seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Fox News accidentally failed to make URLs which streamed live recordings of shows private, likely under the assumption that the domains were very obscure and nobody would find them.
Tim Burke found them. He then published what he found.
That's not hacking by any reasonable definition. There's a legal definition of hacking: "illegally using a computer to make an attempt to access another computer without consent to cause harm or commit fraud." He typed an address into a browser.