Plagiarism of another photographer's work is reprehensible, and the use of stock images as elements of a new work is explicitly prohibited in some of the awards that had been granted. She knew exactly what she was doing, and she got caught.
However, I was amazed to read about this coincidence, where two different photographers unknowingly caught the same miili-second frame of a wave breaking over a lighthouse in March 2018:
How Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
https://petapixel.com/2018/03/07/two...lisecond-time/
Stealing Accusation Uncovers Incredible Coincidence
https://fstoppers.com/originals/stea...cidence-230273