Suspicious activity detected on a Vermont-based utilities company laptop last week may not have been linked to Russian hackers, the Washington Post says today. The alert was reportedly triggered when a Burlington Electric Department employee noticed his computer had connected to a suspicious IP address while checking his Yahoo email inbox. The IP address in question had previously been associated with Grizzly Steppe — the operation connected to the DNC email hack last year — but experts and officials close to the investigation now say that the traffic may have been benign.