Editing Industrial espionage (section)

===Opportunities for sabotage===
The rising use of the internet has also extended opportunities for industrial espionage with the aim of sabotage. In the early 2000s, energy companies were increasingly coming under attack from hackers. Energy power systems, doing jobs like monitoring [[Electrical grid|power grids]] or [[Environmental flow|water flow]], once isolated from the other computer networks, were now being connected to the internet, leaving them more vulnerable, having historically few built-in security features.{{sfn|Piller|2002}} The use of these methods of industrial espionage have increasingly become a concern for governments, due to potential attacks by hostile foreign governments or terrorist groups.