Hacking other companies is illegal as far as I understand.

1. OP specifically mentioned "IP violating antics", not hacking

2. All the hacking legislation (and criminal law in general) require proving intent, which so far as we can tell didn't exist in those cases. At best you can try some "reckless" or "negligent" angle, but that would a novel legal argument and would be risky to prosecute

	▲	someothherguyy 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> All the hacking legislation (and criminal law in general) require proving intent No, they don't, see laws that make negligent behavior illegal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
	▲	crote 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But officer, I didn't mean for my autonomous bank vault busting robot to autonomously bust any bank vaults!