[shbooms]

> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying.

I mean this could just be an attempt to make it _seem_ like it's not a nation state.

One way to essentially guarntee that it _was_ a nation state is for the stolen data to never turn up for sale to the public/back to the owners as we would naturally assume whoever the actor was was happy just keeping everything to themselves, something only a nation state would ever really do. a non-nation state's only real motivation would be financial and so if no evidence of that ever came about, the only real alternative would be to assume it was a nation state.

[michaelt]

Well, or the hack was by some greyhat/kid who realised they were in over their head and that keeping evidence of their crime around was a dumb move.