When the news reached the United States, the people at the Cybersecurity Office felt utterly humiliated. The staff at the Transportation Security Administration in Washington, D.C. were just as frustrated.
Brag about how powerful you are all you want, but why drag us into it?
So you beat them in a head-on fight, while they knocked us flat with one casual slap.
Fortunately, no one yet knew that they had bungled things with a suicidal attack. The suicide part had certainly worked, but the attack had accomplished nothing.
The people at the Cybersecurity Office were overwhelmed. On the one hand, the public was questioning their competence; on the other, they were worried that the truth about this incident might come out.
If it did, none of them would get off lightly, including the President.
That was also why they dared not dodge the slap Phantom Immortal Technology had delivered.
They were afraid the company would expose their dirty secrets!
But the President was the most frustrated of all.
Although the American public had largely accepted their explanation that international hackers were responsible for the cybersecurity incident in Washington, D.C., some voices online kept insisting that the Americans had done it to themselves.
After all, someone had initially reported that the attack on the traffic management platform had originated from the Cybersecurity Office. Quite a few people also knew that American officials had indeed taken part in the attack on the Phantom Immortal Technology Official Website's servers.
Combined with the disclosures at Phantom Immortal Technology's press conference, this confirmed that the people behind the attack on the traffic management platform had indeed been among those attacking Phantom Immortal Technology.
Whether they had done it deliberately or been tricked by Phantom Immortal Technology's Dragon Scale Security Software was beside the point.
Fortunately,