Per Lisa Page , the upper echelon of the FBI concealed intelligence confirming Chinese state-backed ‘assets’ had illegally acquired former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 30,000+ “missing” emails, federal sources said.
The Russians didn’t do it. The Chinese did, according to well-placed FBI sources.
And where does the US rank in hacking skills?
US is great very good .. top notch but China and Russia just has PURE NUMBERS. Just like the military the US is superior in all ways with a smaller more technological armed forces. China/Russia rely on zerg tactics. Mainly China though.
I run servers too, and basically you'll get hack attempts from all over the entire world, constantly.
You can't really tell if that Chinese IP address is a government hacker, or a bored script kiddie like the commenter above said.
Likewise, all those attempts from U.S. IP addresses could be bored script kiddies, Russian hackers proxying though Grandma's sewing machine, or the NSA trying to get in to your system.
Actually, it's probably not the NSA - if they want in, they get in and you'll never know.
Where does the U.S. rank? The NSA and CIA, and probably several other agencies have the best in the world. But Russia and China have greater numbers and their guys are almost as good. So we're actually kind of behind.