The first economic theory that I saw related to this letter was rational choice, because it said that the provider was working with leading cyber security firm to rid itself of the malware. The second economic theory was the Marxian economic theory, this is because the hackers were the stronger party who preyed upon the weaker platform provider and were stealing information for almost a whole year, before they were stopped. The hackers were probably psychologically thinking in ways that are described by the neutralization theory, because they knew what is right and what is wrong. However, they rationalized it in their head that no one was physically getting hurt, so it was ok. Lastly, behavioral theory could apply to the hackers because they most likely weighed the risk vs the reward and decided that the reward was worth the risk.