This inevitably leads to a lot of bland reassurances and sharp dismissals, especially from spokespeople.
"We're confident in our security."
"We've consulted with leading experts."
"We've taken countless precautions."
"We've tested that."
Dismissals:
"Your sources don't know how we do things here."
"That's not a realistic scenario."
Indeed, spokespeople's answers are often designed to do that.
We don't want to gloss over threats, but we also don't want to overhype them, and spokespeople exploit that latter fear.
Sometimes the spokesperson's authoritative reassurances are just wrong. Sometimes the problems were bigger than they thought (or wanted to admit) and you were right to think in those terms.
And the urge to think "Given the stakes & the inevitable fallout, they can't possibly be messing this up" is strong.