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Washington Post Publishes False News Story About Russians Hacking Electrical Grid
All the #FakeNews that's fit to print
A story published by The Washington Post Friday claims Russia hacked the electrical grid in Vermont.
CNN reported it, too, and we captured it here. Just our usual Rantburg service.
This caused hysteria on social media but has been denied by a spokesman for a Vermont utility company.

The Post story was titled, "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, officials say."

The story said, "A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials."

The Post published the story before being able to get comment from the two utility companies in Vermont.
"The scoop! Toujours le scoop! Good journalistic practice as taught at Columbia be damned if it interferes!!"
The Burlington Electric Department would end up putting out a statement showing the premise of The Washington Post story as being untrue.
Oh dear. So much for being the other newspaper of record.
"Last night, U.S. utilities were alerted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of a malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name DHS has applied to a Russian campaign linked to recent hacks," a spokesman for the Burlington Electric Department said. "We acted quickly to scan all computers in our system for the malware signature. We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization's grid systems."
RussianPr0n, likely
The Vermont Public Service Commissioner Christopher Recchia told The Burlington Free Press, "The grid is not in danger."

However, this false Washington Post story about a Russian intrusion into the American electrical grid has caused panic among journalists.
"journalists"
Posted by: Frank G 2016-12-31
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=477208