This is a potentially worse than corruption, but you have provided no data.
Many potential reasons, yes, a bad install, hacking, network issues, and the list goes on. Yet, you have not provided a screen shot of the failure from the shell.
rig.conf or rig id entered with first run process, no. Malware on the station used for flashing, maybe.
Unfortunately, USB drives have their own issues.
Does the hive-replace -y --stable command work when entered via the shell interface?