I'd say more like finding the key hidden in the fake rock.
...which is the only rock--real or fake--sitting on the front porch.
...and which is also coated in glow-in-the-dark orange paint, in case you need to find it at night.
The epidemic must indeed stop. We need to immediately enroll 10% of all celebrities in remedial network security classes, and stop crying "hacker!" for stuff like informed password-guessing attacks against insecure passwords and violating terms of service by scraping web pages with curl or wget.
The actual crime this guy committed was to annoy the powerful.