I’m not in the US and work on a moderately high-volume site, also not in the US. We’ve had a lot of attacks, and a couple servers compromised though our security team was able to get the VMs offline before any further exploits could succeed, and in one case was able to trace the attack back to a server (which itself wasn’t particularly secure). The discussion on a chat server on that box was in Chinese. Yeah, sure, maybe someone went to a huge amount of trouble to fake all that chat, but I’m going with the more probable explanation.

Just because the US is fascist doesn’t mean China smells like a rose. Two things can be wrong at once.

As for the purported Google heroics, I’m unconvinced.