Monster's behaviour, both historical and current, actually has a lot to do with the hack. If Monster didn't try to cut out a niche for himself as "the guy who will sell literally (almost) anyone a domain", pulling marketing stunts like running Nazi websites, Epik wouldn't have attracted so many unsavory customers, thus hacktivists wouldn't have broken into their system. If he wasn't so arrogant and clueless about security his data wouldn't have been stored in such an insecure way (or at all, most of this stuff they did not need!) If they had patched their systems they might not have even gotten hacked. Did you miss the part where they probably failed to notify anyone that they were investigating a potential breach in 2020? Nobody is trying to defame your friend, they're criticizing him for making so many poor life choices and business decisions.