They're probably going to ignore it. The modding community is small enough and doesn't really represent any significant demographic, so they couldn't care less to shit on us. It's very media friendly to say that hackers did it, because people will be like "oh, I don't understand what hackers do, but I know they're bad, so.. sure. it's their fault"
(this is all my sarcasm/the media's generic view of the matters.)
hackers plant viruses, which are bad.
hackers add pornography into otherwise decent (hahaha) games. (yeah right, I didn't just go chainsaw a stripper in my (unmodded) GTA, then buy a hooker and drive her off a cliff and bail).