[AnimalMuppet]

Yeah, this whole thing smells.

Who has the incentive to do this, though? China/North Korea? Or someone in South Korea trying to cover up how bad they messed up? Does adding this additional mess on top mean they looked like they messed up less? (And for that to be true, how horrifically bad does the hack have to be?)

[mattmaroon]

It might be different “they”s. Putting on my tinfoil hat, whoever was going to be in hot water over the hack burns it down and now the blame shifts from them to whoever manages G-drive and don’t have a backup plan.

Not saying I believe this (or even know enough to have an opinion), but it’s always important to not anthropomorphize a large organization. The government isn’t one person (even in totalitarian societies) but an organization that contains large numbers of people who may all have their own motivations.

[keepamovin]

If there was shady behavior, I doubt it’s about a cyber hack. More likely probably the current administration covering their tracks after their purges.

Alternate hypothesis: cloud storage provided doing the hard sell. Hahaha :)

[mattmaroon]

“It’d be a real shame if something happened to your data center…”

[conductr]

> whoever was going to be in hot water over the hack burns it down and now the blame shifts from them to whoever manages G-drive and don’t have a backup plan.

LG is SK firm and manufacturer of hacked hardware and also the batteries that caught fire. Not sure it’s a solid theory just something I took note of while thinking the same

[mattmaroon]

Interesting but same concept applies to organizations.