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There's a history of state-sponsored and not so state-sponsored cybercrime from both these countries against the United States and US businesses, so it's not an

There's a history of state-sponsored and not so state-sponsored cybercrime from both these countries against the United States and US businesses, so it's not an assumption that's too far off the mark. Assumptions don't equal guilt, but even the headline says "suspected". This is SSN data that was stolen, it's a whole different beast that the FBI's kerfuffle (to put it lightly) with the Sony Pictures hack.

b6 12y ago
> This is SSN data that was stolen, it's a whole different beast that the ... Sony Pictures hack. I can't tell which one you think is more serious. It sounds like you think it'd be a very serious matter if SSN data was stolen. But haven't the vast majority of SSNs been available on the various blackhat markets for many years?