Nine months of access to an unencrypted personnel roster, and a department that will not say whether anyone was looking for it.
Adopting ML-KEM cost the attacker one library. It costs a defence contractor its entire estate.
Personnel data decays. A network diagram does not — it converts the next intrusion from exploration into navigation, silently.
Eighty seconds is less time than it takes to read an alert. A defence that depends on somebody noticing has already lost.
Presenting "encrypted" and "corrupted" as interchangeable makes an accident of the attacker’s process sound like a defence.