The evidence supporting offensive hacking is abundant in recent history; the number of things which have been learned from alien crash data is surely smaller by comparison to the number of things which have been learned from offensive hacking.
However, there is no evidence this is how the data was obtained. Zero, zilch.
So its a useless statement which only plays on peoples bias against their hated nation state de jour.
The evidence supporting offensive hacking is abundant in recent history; the number of things which have been learned from alien crash data is surely smaller by comparison to the number of things which have been learned from offensive hacking.