Come on now. Only a few years ago an autistic British teenager merrily romped his way around America’s securest networks looking for UFO evidence, ostensibly doing nothing more challenging than Matthew Broderick in WarGames.
It’s not that implausible that a Russkie could’ve done it. What’s far funnier is, if one did it, he was so impressed at his pretty average skillz that he had to crow about it.
“romped his way around America’s securest networks”
No, those weren’t our “securest networks”. The most secure networks actually have no connection to the outside world. They are designed with an “air gap” for increased security.