Well I second part of what you said was obvious.. but your logic is flawed because I could use the same logic if someone that committed a mass shooting worked at a gun range or if a butcher stabbed someone.
I'm insinuating, if anything, that the skills needed to be an effective hacker and those needed to be an effective Amazon programmer likely overlap, that's all.
That being said, I agree with you that the person who put Amazon in the headline was trying to discredit Amazon, just like the person who mentioned that Jeff Bezos ate baby whale was trying to discredit him.