Hunter obviously grew up in a disposable world... just get a new one it is so much easier.
Now, in the present matter, he takes his computer to some random repair shop. Clearly, anyone with skeletons in his closet (not to mention his hard drive), the right play would have been to ditch the computer. At the very least, his dad surely must have known a 'guy' who could have fixed it more discreetly.
But even so, all he had to do was go back to the repair shop and pay a couple of hundred dollars. I mean, either he is brain-dead, or he was so accustomed to the immunity afforded by the swamp, that he was extremely careless. Possibly both.