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Vermont Utility Scare Traced to Employee Checking Email
- Business Insider, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 10:10 AM
The suspicious code on a Vermont utility system that led to suspicions that the Russians may have hacked into the network was actually caused by an employee checking his email. According to a report in The Washington Post, a Burlington Electric Department employee checking his Yahoo email account set off an alert that his computer had connected to a suspicious IP address associated with a Russian hacking group.
