Interdasting find: 737-MAX 8 and 9 aircraft have no in flight entertainment screens on them. Only source of passenger entertainment is wifi, which means the aircraft must be connected full time to ground based internet.
There's your connection uplink to any remote hacking signals. Might be why they were both grounded.
Sauce for seatbacks:
https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/united-737-max-tour/