Granted, these people are dooming their chances of working in the game industry again

Difficult to proof that tho. Those things are usually sold on anonymous platforms like the darkweb. Unless you got another case of a darkweb marketplace or forums being run by the feds, it’s nearly impossible to proof that it was you - you could probably always say “my keys were stolen by someone in IT or maybe someone hacked it, idk” and well, innocent until proven guilty helps you here.