I can't understand why power grids (etc) are tied into the internet at all. Why would they need to be? Why would they WANT to be?

I just googled news info on power grids and hackers, and the only things that came up were a very few like the one cited above. Our CIA is passing out the info that SOME power grid in SOME foreign country was hacked into. So why wasn't it news in that country or surrounding countries?

Watch their OTHER hand....

Sue