@roomey Well, I somewhat disagree here.

If you assumed state actors, especially USA state actors you may be right.

However, now it's some hacker group that can share their knowledge with anybody. So the potential group of attackers is now extended to basically anybody who somehow was able to get in touch with the hackers who hacked Microsoft.

That's a totally different game now.

Furthermore, it's not only privacy that's in danger here. It's the whole set of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security#Key_concepts