As a potential client I'd feel safer if they admitted that fraud had occurred and said what steps they were taking to avoid fraud in future, but considerably less safe from the revelation the fraudsters were rank amateurs and that the website operator might be prepared to use hacking and doxing as a means of redressing grievances.

I haven't payed particularly close attention to weev's trial but IIRC, the main points in his defence were that the "hacked" data was actually accessible via the public internet with no real subterfuge or misuse of private information required, and they'd tried to disclose it through appropriate channels. Neither seem to apply here, even if Russian hackers don't particularly deserve the Feds rushing to their aid.