I'm sure everyone knows very well that this "I was hacked by China" is just a convenient excuse, and nothing else. Think of it: Even in the rare case that your

I'm sure everyone knows very well that this "I was hacked by China" is just a convenient excuse, and nothing else. Think of it: Even in the rare case that your logs actually show that the attack came from a Chinese IP address, that machine was almost certainly cracked, too. Or, does anyone really think that a serious attacker would run attacks directly from their own system? So the story goes like this: Someone failed to secure their systems and were cracked by a more or less complicated attack. Since they don't want to admit that it was some cheap security, they point to the evil genious Chinese attacker, against whom no super-secure system whatsoever would have had a chance. It is quite similar to the argument of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM equipment". This is not about the quality of IBM, it's about being able to say "I have done everything as good as possible".