Yeah, unfortunately I think this has become a trend. If a big company gets hacked, they can just say "Well, this sucks, but what could innocent helpless little

Yeah, unfortunately I think this has become a trend. If a big company gets hacked, they can just say "Well, this sucks, but what could innocent helpless little us have done against a whole country like [Russia, NK, Iran, other stereotypical boogeyman to American audiences]?" It's quite transparent BS in every case I've seen thus far (prominently, Sony and the DNC), but it definitely earns the hacked company some sympathy, and it allows them to feel more important and make others think they're important enough for a nation-state to try to steal from them. Since it's worked a couple of times, now everyone is going to pile on. I expect every major data breach over the next few years is going to be perpetrated by an ethereal "state-sponsored actor".