How can my computer show fluid damage when I didn't spill on it?

How can my Mac Book Pro show water damage inside when I never spilled water on or near it? My hard drive failed. I brought it to Apple store to be repaired under Apple Care Warranty. After it was opened I was told that it would not be covered under warranty due to fluid damage. I was shocked because I never spilled on it. I leave it in one place on a counter in my home. I don't have little kids or others to spill on it. They said it was dried like old fluid damage but guessed that it would have been 6-8 ounces. I live in Wisconsin. The house is very dry usually but our home April Air humidifier keeps house humidity more normal. I put it into the original box and put it in my car for a few days until I was able to drive to Milwaukee to the Apple store. The out door temperature was cold but the car was in the garage. Could condensation alone look like this? If that much fluid was spilled wouldn't it fail at that time? The computer stopped one pm when I was using it for several hours. At the store they hooked it up to their external hard drive and everything else seemed to work, and the plan was to replace the hard drive under warranty. They called me later to say that after opening it they old dried fluid damage was identified and voided warrranty. RAther that spend $1200+ to fix it seems that I should just buy a new computer. I don't understand how this could happen and I certainly don't want it to happen again if I didn't spill on it. Can anyone explain this?

No, no one can. No one has any better idea than you have about where your computer has been or how it has been treated.
If your computer is working normally apart from its hard drive having failed, it doesn't need to be repaired, apart from replacing the bad drive. You would be crazy to replace the whole thing at vast expense instead of buying a replacement drive for $100 or less and installing it yourself. Instructions for replacing the drive easily are in the little user guide that came with the machine.

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