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Too grandiose a word for a targeted assassination of a handful of folks.

Not if the hacker group is a nation state. Sure, small time hacking is cute and all, but the US isn’t going to just roll over and be all like “oh no, you hit critical infrastructure that had a big impact on peoples life. Carry on”

Even this time too government was aware that Colonial paid the Ransom. The question was asked in the Whitehouse press breifing, it was told that this is essentially a private sector matter, Government will not advice Colonial in this regard. Also they said it was Colonial's prerogative to decide and act.

Transcript of Whitehouse Press Briefing: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...

That's because nothing of consequence happened at this time. Had the actions resulted in deaths of a few hundred or a few thousand Americans the response would most likely be very different.

Wouldn't it cause more ransoms and more damage to millions of Americans?

continuing the unfortunate trend of the public spending to protect private profit.