Why release a statement about what's either an intelligence op (if it's a hack) or a CFAA violation (as reading someone's email on their laptop probably is)? And you can't say finding someone's abandoned laptop is just finders keepers, everything on earth is a CFAA violation. It's nice and open ended like that.

Note before it was "found" there was already a pseudonymous report written about some of its contents.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-...

…and a related party stole Ashley Biden's diary and published it with another fake backstory a bit later. But they've actually been indicted.