My wife summed this one up pretty neatly: “So, these are magic squirrels, then.” …Yeah, that’s fair.
Squirrelnet AIs
Somebody will pay for this, to be sure. Somebody will pay most grievously — assuming that they can be found. Whoever it was hid his, her, or its tracks very thoroughly. Note the ‘it,’ by the way: the authorities have still not definitively ruled out that Earth is undergoing a fairly bizarre alien invasion right now.