There's no reason to think it was hacked or tampered with. Most of it has been substantiated as valid so no indication of tampering. It honestly takes a lot of

There's no reason to think it was hacked or tampered with. Most of it has been substantiated as valid so no indication of tampering. It honestly takes a lot of belief in fantasy to think an entity capable of hacking multiple 2FA services, major corporations and multiple governments, did so and planted evidence on a laptop. Then gave that laptop away on the hope that the shop owner would discover it and give it to the news. It seems far more likely that the incestuous child molester who filters millions of dollars in bribes annually dropped off one of his connected laptops then forgot about it and failed to pay because he has abused cocaine for 3+ decades.