It's not ambiguous if you read it carefully, but you're essentially arguing "technically correct, the best kind of correct" for sensationalized reporting where it's known that many people won't even read past the headline.
You:
> The phrase 'Russia "hacked" the elections, making Trump win' implies tampering with the voting and vote counting.
Title of that article:
> Russia hacked voting systems in 39 states before the 2016 Presidential election
It's crafted to survive a mechanistic fact check while targeting the fact that people are bad at processing information.
No, it's just over estimating people, it's a matter of fact description of the contents of the article.
If Russia accesses the backend systems storing voter data, what are they supposed to report to ensure that they do not mislead people? (I say backend there because there's actual directly published voter data all over the place that is intended to be accessed by whoever).
It's really actually problematic and news that a foreign power is fiddling around with those backend systems, but apparently if you report that they did it, there will be years of controversy about how you reported that they hacked the election.
You:
> The phrase 'Russia "hacked" the elections, making Trump win' implies tampering with the voting and vote counting.
Title of that article:
> Russia hacked voting systems in 39 states before the 2016 Presidential election
It's crafted to survive a mechanistic fact check while targeting the fact that people are bad at processing information.