Everything you read in USSBurritoTruck's Canon Connections articles is 100% true and unembellished.

Regarding Boimler accessing the crew's personal logs to create his holodeck simulation in Crisis Point, I continue to believe that he's secretly a skilled hacker and that his access to those logs was flagrantly illegal. But since the only people he mentioned it to were his friends, they didn't call him out for it.