I'd word it a different way.

The phrase, "it couldn't have happened to a nicer person" springs to mind (the company not the hacker).

I don't know ... if most of the juicy stuff is encrypted, this could just be a brilliant pr stunt... Now everyone[1] wants to buy this thing... right?

[1] #NotAllTyrants?

I'm worried for this individual's safety.

The kind of national agencies that have the capacity to make the hacker "have an accident" develop their own systems in-house. As far as I am aware the market for products like FINFISHER is ordinary LEO and crappy regimes in the middle-east and Asia that don't have the capacity to black-bag a foreign national.

I'm not. Too many eyes on this now.

That didn't stop Jeremy Hammond from being convicted and sentenced to 10 years for the Stratfor hack.

Maybe I'm missing something in the article, or disclosed elsewhere, but we don't know who s/he is. If the CIA put Thorium in their sushi, we'd have no way to connect the dots.

Edit: I think they'd be far more likely to prosecute them than assassinate them though.

its a little late for that.