I think most people won't know or care. They may see the headlines about the Nukes and be concerned, but won't really know how big a deal this really is.
The system they compromised usually has highly elevated access to a companies network. And due to the length of time they went undetected who knows what else they did, stole, or compromised.
The motivation and objectives are currently unknown, but we are talking potentially hundreds or thousands of compromised companies, governments, etc. They had potentially full access into some of the biggest companies for months, you give an adversary with this kind of skill that much time, and there is no telling what they could have done.
This is likely a watershed moment in Cybersecurity. The story is still unfolding, and full impact could take months or years to understand.
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