Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

This is a big story, and it seems curious why it isn&#x27;t on the front page of HN.<p>Also weird are the comments alleging this is really some US spy op, and not the Russian state.<p>Russia has the motive and means and unless other evidence comes to light, it seems likely that they are behind it.

This may be a silly question, but how do they know who did it?

[dupe]<p>Some more discussion on official post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39641953">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39641953</a><p>And here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39648170">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39648170</a>

Remember when we all learned from the vault 7 leaks that the US government has the ability to create cyberattacks that appear to investigators to have come from another nation?<p>We were doing that prior to 2017. Thank God someone like China can&#x27;t ever do that, even nearly a decade after we did and we can trust these sort of accusations at face value and not at all think critically about them.

when caught being completely run over, change the subject to the awfulness of some enemy.. do not relent! every ounce of effort on media spin! oh wait

&quot;Blame it on the X&quot;<p>X: Russians Chinese Iran (current US enemy)

Bad ruskies again… Maybe it’s time to find another enemy of the state? How about reptilians from outer space?