There's always the chance someone social-engineered their way past the registrar's access control, or that they got some kind of access to the registrar's syste

There's always the chance someone social-engineered their way past the registrar's access control, or that they got some kind of access to the registrar's systems. Or the domain owner simply didn't read an email properly and clicked the wrong link. There's too little information to draw conclusions at this point.