I don't think anyone genuinely believes that Meltonne will be in any trouble, unless they find sussy shit on his hard drives in the process.
They're both getting away with it but it's funny to see everyone squirm.
I think Melton will be in enough trouble to flip him. He was by far the most vocal in this operation, using the hack and its proceeds as content for his show, and harassing/intimidating Aaron with its content or supposed content. Any "journalistic protection/exception" is unlikely to apply, because he and Aaron have a history. Even before the proceeds from the hack were used Melton was using Aaron for content, some of it in poor taste but meh, it is what it is. For me the problem starts when he uses the data to harass Aaron and pretty openly threatens him with the release of more data and how bad that would be for Aaron, pushing a humiliation angle.
Will he get jailtime for that? Unlikely. Letting him plead down for full cooperation against Nick makes more sense, unless they find more on his devices than we know at this time. For him it largely depends on if they think they have enough for a conspiracy to harass and intimidate charge in concert with Nick, not the "hack".
And they will offer the same to all the other people who had access and used the data/appeared on shows where it was used.
If receiving the data is a problem for any of those people depends largely on at what point in time they should have reasonably known that they were receiving illegal data and did so anyway, and I can already hear the excuse: "The lawyer guy told us it was ok because he did not hack the account, he had legal access." A lot hinges on that fact, and Moody panicking slightly on the Discord with the cope is a good indicator for when at least one of them understood that.
The primary target of the investigation is Nick after all.
But I think its funny when people try to argue some point about this drama without even knowing the actors, the timeline and what exactly happened. You cannot really discuss the hack and the data being shared without knowing who it was shared with and what the fat piece of shit did with it.
[EDIT] Just so certain people do not start crying again. This is a gossip forum, everything I write is an opinion, stop crying every time I mock someone for saying something stupid. I might be 100% wrong about everything and you can make fun of my opinions in a few months. Have at it. "they didn't do nuffin wrong" is a weird take to have about everyone other than Nick.