When Aidan Sanger is not spreading muck on Twitter and other sites, including this one, he is is being nasty.

A later update quoted the hackers;
"we are doing this for the money, it is not political."
Another reference, on I think the BBC, stated that the message was in Russian.
Probably trying to reduce the heat.
Along the same line, the Stux virus that destroyed Iran's centrifuges
which were NOT connected to the internet, was introduced by leaving
memory sticks lying around the town and sooner or later someone that
was employed at the nuclear site found one and plugged it into a usb
socket to see what was on it. And away it went !
So, on a critical site do not have USB ports on computers on the site.
I have been told that is now a common practice.

Hasbeen, re your crack about Biden. If the USA has evidence that Russian hackers were involved, Biden had a range of option:

1. Do nothing.
2. Contact Putin. This could be a message f displeasure, or a warning of counteraction if hackings continue.
3. Retaliate. Trade sanctions? Hack Russian assets? Bomb something?

If Biden did nothing, your criticism migbt be valid. Of the other two options, instant retaliation would be foolish,since it invites a tit-for-tat escalation.

Option 2 makes most sense at this stage. While we don't know what Biden said to Putin, I doubt it followed Trump's line of adoration (envy?) of strong-man Putin.

US President has done the right thing in contacting Putin.
Biden is being kept up to date by all the federal agencies.
He knows what's going on and has acted appropriately.
We'll see what the outcomes are. Biden is not Trump -
and Putin will be dealt with in a different way.

Here is a link which discusses what difficulties are starting to
development in this Ransom hack.

http://tinyurl.com/95wxnvee

Hopefully it will alert some people who should know better to the risk
of having important functions connected to the internet.

I notice that one female member of the Biden administration thinks that, if they all had electric cars, they wouldn't have to worry about the situation. I never use the expression gob smacking, but I can't think of a more appropriate response to that.