It is probably less Hollywood-like, such as predicting cloud cover over areas you'd be interested in using your satellites to look at. Or maybe they had a cyber

It is probably less Hollywood-like, such as predicting cloud cover over areas you'd be interested in using your satellites to look at. Or maybe they had a cyberhacking campaign and broke into as many US orgs as possible simultaneously, but each department discovers it at different times. Or, as others have said, maybe it isn't China at all but some other party?