Are we in this position now because,

[Amishman]

15. I can't see how it could have impacted the results, and that it was standard data mining

I work in IT for a regional bank, we have relentless constant intrusion attempts from China, Russia, and others. I've seen this at previous jobs as well - in one case they did successfully gain entry into a test server. They copied down the entire database of dummy test data.

The point is these types of intrusion efforts happen continually to every major internet connected server, not just election related ones.