> "I'm trying to see what the big deal is here.."

It sets a precedent and the danger is that it becomes standard practice for anything they want to use it for. An attempted fraud that didn't succeed isn't exactly a high bench mark is it?

It's like the police saying that they solved a historical crime because they happened to obtain DNA from someone who committed some other random misdemeanour. So let's just take everyone's DNA and solve a bunch of other crimes too.