Can you provide a reference for the tens of thousands of hackers to break into companies and servers? Surely there would be some whistle-blowers, after all hackers are such an unreliable bunch!
That's exactly what the parent is talking about: all this smells fishy. Google says it and 34 other companies have been attacked and the world goes crazy. Companies exist to make profit, government is here for security. 
I think it is quite realistic to assume that Google did it to make more money, see <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062059" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062059</a>