I mean it's a fictional story, they can just make up any reason.
"Arasaka had an old MySQL server that was mirroring all the data from thier relic servers that the techies forgot about and a Merc hacked it because it hadn't been updated from server 2016"
You used almost slave labour in the form of migrants workers, and paid them in government money so you could continue to be a farmer and not have to sell up to some multinational agri-corp.
But then you voted for trump because other people said foreigners were taking your job, and because your a fucking gormless mouth breather.
It's why he keeps saying he's going to have the government have an investment in crypto. So he can then buy it back from his bribers with tax dollars and they get their money back and the government is left holding the bag.
Those billionaires are into necrophilia.