Microsoft informs customers that Russian hackers spied on emails

> Russian hackers who broke into Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab systems and spied on staff inboxes earlier this year also stole emails from its customers

> An allegedly Chinese hacking group that separately breached Microsoft last year stole thousands of U.S. government emails.

The US press has somehow acquired a whataboutism requirement. Whenever there's a story about a Russian hacking or political influence operation, the article must mention something similar China did or, if none, an allegation that it may have done. If China is somehow ineligible, then Iran or another non-white-majority country, or the US itself as a last resort.

It's curious because the Russians benefit three-fold:

- Deflecting some of the blame via the whataboutism itself,

- Fanning the racial hatred they've been stirring up in the US since the early 20th century, and

- Widening the rift between the West and China/Iran/other allies and prospective allies of the Russians, driving them further into their camp.

> Microsoft informs customers that Russian hackers spied on emails

Do they know on which emails ? How do they know the hackers were Russian when they don't even know their own product. /s