This is headline top-story news on the BBC right now therefore it must be 'big'. Yet no evidence of anyone making unauthorised access. We have had a resurgence

This is headline top-story news on the BBC right now therefore it must be 'big'. Yet no evidence of anyone making unauthorised access. We have had a resurgence of 'Snowden' stories in the last few days, so here is a hypothetical scenario: what does a company do if the hackers turn out to be NSA/GCHQ? It is unlikely that they would drop an email to explain that they had just stolen the whole customer database because of some 'al-qaeda' based reasoning, so you would not know it was them. If you suspected it was them then people would wonder if you had taken your meds. If you got the FBI involved then they would tell you it was some script kiddies rather than the Peeping-Tom-Brigade. Or, if you did know it was the NSA, then you might think that information was safe in their hands and not feel the need to tell the customers. I look forward to when we get stories where the NSA are explicitly blamed for a data breach instead of some random Chinese hacker, and that emails are sent out saying 'we have been hacked by the NSA again, can you change your passwords please?'. If the NSA crawled out of the darkness to deny the breach then nobody would believe them.