If your password database got hacked do you think it would be proper for journalists to say "Jagex gave the malicious party their database"?
If our password dadabase was accessed by someone who has the admin username and password, it would be a fair statement that someone gave it away somehow
If someone hacked into your systems and gained access to a database would it be fair and proper to say "Jagex gave the malicious party their database"?
That question was neither convoluted nor complicated, and the very fact that you tried to skirt around it demonstrates that you know damn well it's unfair and improper to say "give" without evidence of intent.
If you have evidence to demonstrate intent then that's fine. But don't pretend it's not needed.
No but it would be fair to say that the "hacker" was given the password if they used it to access the database