Why would a prominent member of a government administration with a central narrative of being besieged by (particularly internal) enemies which necessitates taking extreme action to liberare the country lie about a large scale attack directed at one of the things most publicly associated with them?
> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.
> We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.