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by timebomb 4182 days ago
The FBI has already made it quite clear that they're trying to use these accusations as evidence that the US needs to be afraid of cyber attacks.

I've seen a lot of people wonder this, but they flat out state in in an official statement on their website:

"Further, North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States."

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-so...

Second to last paragraph, second sentence.