Over the past few days, we've seen a story about Russian agents hacking the U.S. power grid spread like wildfire across the internet — only to be debunked as a wild overstatement of the facts at hand.

Yes, a single laptop belonging to Vermont utility Burlington Electric was found to have visited an IP address cited by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI as being associated with a Russian hacking operation, dubbed Grizzly Steppe, that also hacked the U.S government during the election.

But there's no evidence that this amounted to anything other than a utility employee checking his or her Yahoo email account, as the Washington PostView Full Article