Deep throat???
If this is true, she is toast. Regardless of ethical reasons, what she/he did was illegal and should be easier to track than some out of network hacker.
This does indeed make a lot of sense, now that I think about it. If I were an otherwise disinterested hacker, I would probably try to monetize the hack - you know, “give me ten million bitcoin or else...” I’d give it a shot, anyway, or sell it to someoned who would.
Sounds to me like someone not only wanted them down, but they wanted to, pardon the pun, screw ‘em pretty royally. Either way, nobody involved comes out looking good, or even remotely sympathetic.