"<i>We can confirm that there was no manipulation of data, no commands were successfully sent to the satellite, and no data was captured.</i>"<p>For some definition of hacked...
It's becoming increasingly clear that there is a substantial group of governments and individual organizations that are taking the weaponization of software and computer systems seriously, to the degree of actually effectively waging war with those weapons.<p>What's most worrying is the extreme lack of expertise and concern from legal and regulatory angencies in response. If child porn or IP violations are involved the police and government in every developed country will be all over it, but they tend towards incompetence and apathy when it comes to intrusion and subversion.