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There is certainly a possibility of civil liability for breach of contract or copyright infringement for violating a EULA.

In some cases, a person could even face criminal liability (e.g., hacking game servers using a modified client could be both a EULA violation and a crime).

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A breach of contract is not a criminal act and I don't even think (I don't know as IANAL but it doesn't matter for this purpose) it is a tort? Copyright infringement is not enforced by EULAs. And I am certainly not claiming that if you violate an EULA your action is somehow immune from all other laws. Yet, this is still true: violating an EULA is not "illegal". If the EULA says you can only do X or you must not do Y, you absolutely are allowed to do those things, but there might be consequences such as... they ban you from their service, or they refuse to give you warrant service... not "and the law comes after you with a fine or jail time or whatever as what you did was illegal".

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