A thought:

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/18/heres-what-we-know-about-russian-company-behind-faceapp/?outputType=amp

Why would the various articles warning (at the peak of popularity and exposure, likely fed into Facebook) that "FaceApp is a Russian company that will steal your images to train AI Algorithms" drop JUST BEFORE this FSB hack unless [they] were setting up the masses to distrust Russia even more than collectively the US population already does…JUST IN CASE Russia has damning information and could ostensibly make them look like the good guys?

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/88657/intelligence/fsb-contractor-sytech-hacked.html

Regarding the Nautilus project:

>"The promotional offer for potential clients contained the following phrase: “In England, there is even a saying:“ Do not write to the Internet what you cannot tell the policeman. ”This carelessness of users opens up new possibilities for collecting and summarizing personal data, analyzing them further and using them for solving special tasks. "

How convenient.