ofcourse this was bound to happen sooner or later, as there are enough assholes all around the globe that would either do it for money (afaik a tablet was used for it's "brains") or just to get a kick out of destroying unprotected property
in my opinion the main reason it happened now is simply because there weren't a lot of people around that gave a shit about the project so some coward(s) had the opportunity to do it