Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ^ | January 2 at 10:02 PM | By Ellen Nakashima and Juliet Eilperin

[Eleutheria5]

You mean—GASP! ORGAN CHORD! SCREAAAAAM! ORGAN CHORDS IN SCALE!—They targeted the other 49?! Run! Where?! In circles, you idiots! RUUUUN! The Russians are hacking! The Russians are hacking!/s

[Elsie]

Item found on page D-4 of the WaPo yesterday...

As federal officials investigate suspicious Internet activity found last week on a Vermont utility computer, they are finding evidence that the incident is not linked to any Russian government effort to target or hack the utility, according to experts and officials close to the investigation.

[Elsie]

They are identified as the hackers that did all this hacking.

[StAnDeliver]

This is what passes for National Security reporting at the Washington Post...

[plangent]

I’m thinking the only reason Juliet Eilperin (White House Bureau Chief) is on this story is to inject the Administration’s rabid obsession with Russians.

[plangent]

An employee at Burlington Electric Department was checking his Yahoo email account Friday and triggered an alert indicating that his computer had connected to a suspicious IP address associated by authorities with the Russian hacking operation that infiltrated the Democratic Party.

Totally bogus bullchit! No one hacked the DNC. Period!

TigersEye, you got that right, except the employee only SAYS he was checking his Yahoo e-mail. A forensic examination of his computer could show he was actually downloading from "Sluts Are Us."

[WKUHilltopper]

Waho

[euram]

The original story claiming that the Russians had hacked the utility was just more alt-left #fakenews, meant to generate more anti-Russian hysteria among the feeble minded liberals.

[trebb]

Lots of shark jumping from fake news from sources most noted for fake news.....

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So is this the real fake news, or the original report fake news, or are both reports fake news.

[mandaladon]

But WaPo had run with the story anyway originally. Without fully investigating. Fake news, anyone? And many outlets had debunked their story. But WaPo has become the Dems’ propaganda arm and water carrier. The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! And they’re the ones responsible for HRC’s loss, not the DNC and Hillary herself!

[catnipman]

Completely bogus story! MY government sources said they have absolute proof it was Russian hackers because they found the following definitive “Russia Hacker Signature” accidentally left behind:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/41760/1171768-boris_and_natasha_1.jpg

[catnipman]

Completely bogus story! MY government sources said they have absolute proof it was Russian hackers because they found the following definitive "Russia Hacker Signature" accidentally left behind:

[TigersEye]

LOL

They admit in the article that his computer wasn’t connected to the utility grid in any way and yet they go totally bananas about it. Fake Alarm! I wonder if it was even a work-related computer or just his personal computer?

This crap if fake upon fake upon fake.