If only it were the Russians who hacked into the proprietary database of the Houston Astros, St Louis Cardinals fans might feel a bit better about their own cyber crime situation.
The exercise was generally aimed at giving ministers the chance to practice situational awareness, crisis management and strategic communication between member states — with the overarching goal of moving towards establishing a policy guideline for the European Union to adopt in the event of such a cyber war situation.
However, information sharing is a crucial step to acquiring a thorough understanding of large-scale cyber-attack situations, and is therefore seen as one of the key concepts to protect future networks.
At the other end of the security scale, Mexico ranked as least prepared to cope with the cyber threat - a situation which is blamed on the country's authorities needing to overwhelmingly focus on the country's gang and drugs problems.
Both the nuclear industry and its regulators need to engage with cyber-security experts on a continuing basis, installing robust policies and action plans to deal with the technical, managerial and cultural shortfalls that contribute to the current risky situation that cyber-attacks pose.
He warned that using sensational phrases such as "cyber armageddon" only inflames the situation.
Sadly, precious little has changed since then with regard to the state of the world's cyber insecurity; if anything, the situation has grown worse.
Web-site defacements were an annoyance in the standoff between China and the Philippines over the Scarborough Shoal/Huangyan Island, but more serious cyber attacks could have escalated the situation, making signalling much more complicated.
The English to their credit, have set-up organizations that help kids and their parents in these situations like the NSPCC "Cyber Bullying" page.
The government has not said who is behind the cyber attacks, but people familiar with the situation told the Journal that there are whispers that it could be a job done by the Russian government.
To fix the situation, Motorola has rescheduled its Cyber Monday sale and will now hold it on two days.
