Something worth knowing is that "attribution" is extremely difficult. Also "attribution engineering" is really quite easy and difficult to see through. Often

Something worth knowing is that "attribution" is extremely difficult. Also "attribution engineering" is really quite easy and difficult to see through. Often the purpose of a hack is not to exfiltrate data or sabotage systems but is exactly to direct blame (or sometimes distract/misdirect) Indeed in vault 5 of Snowden's NSA leaks an "attribution engineering toolkit" was a interesting find. Malware is almost always engineered to throw forensic investigators off the scent. That all said, I think this incident happening in US gov, in the current climate, without immediate urgent investigation is scandalous and in itself an indicator of deeper and very serious skulduggery.