An attack directed at your own govt is potentially a nightmare for the average individual. If the wrong information is stolen it could be used much farther down the road. Your govt may find itself at a disadvantage at a critical moment.

I'm a sense it's only not a nightmare if you aren't paying attention.

A worst nightmare for normal people would be something like a foreign country hacking all the US nuclear missiles and launching them against themselves. You know, an actual war caused by it, not just some minor intelligence advantage with no particular direct effect on normal people.

Unclear to me how worried he is. See https://www.turn-keytechnologies.com/blog/article/solarwinds... and other articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/culture.html.

At least 18k+ networks were compromised. I bet average people got caught in that net.