School district: Network is safe from future cybercrime, investigation is ongoing

‘Right now, the purpose really is for us to say ... we're not ignoring it. We're not sweeping it under the rug. But it is a process that's going to take time,’ Superintendent LaShakia Moore said.


Flagler Schools Chief Financial Officer Patty Wormeck and Chief of Technology and Innovation Ryan Deising provide an update on the cybercrime committed against the school district last fall. Image from a Flagler Schools video.
Flagler Schools Chief Financial Officer Patty Wormeck and Chief of Technology and Innovation Ryan Deising provide an update on the cybercrime committed against the school district last fall. Image from a Flagler Schools video.
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Flagler Schools provided an update on its efforts to recover some of the $719,000 it lost in a cybertheft scheme last fall. But the update at the April 16 School Board workshop provided little information other than to assure the public that it is still working to recover funds and has updated its financial processes.

“The district does continue to work through this process to try to recover as many funds as we can. And we are working through our local sheriff's office, the Secret Service, the bank and our risk management team.” Patty Wormeck, the district’s chief financial officer, said.

 “Our financial processes in the finance world have been updated quite substantially to ensure that this does not happen again,” she added.

 


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