{"id":227325,"date":"2026-03-25T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/almost-200k-stolen-in-cybersecurity-incident-in-ohio-trustees-say\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:05:09","slug":"almost-200k-stolen-in-cybersecurity-incident-in-ohio-trustees-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/almost-200k-stolen-in-cybersecurity-incident-in-ohio-trustees-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost $200K stolen in cybersecurity incident in Ohio, trustees say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/almost-200k-stolen-cybersecurity-incident-074929327.html\">Almost $200K stolen in cybersecurity incident in Ohio, trustees say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/almost-200k-stolen-cybersecurity-incident-074929327.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/almost-200k-stolen-cybersecurity-incident-074929327.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 03:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say almost $200,000 in taxpayer funds were stolen in a cybersecurity incident in Ohio last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pleasant Township trustees said that about $191,000 was missing from the township\u2019s checkbook, according to our news partner, WBNS, in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a rough weekend,\u201d said trustee Nancy Hunter during a meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trustee Edward Sheets said he was notified about the incident on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt happened in nine different occurrences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said that transactions did not originate from a township computer. They also believe that employee information has not been compromised, WBNS reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sheets stated that passwords have been updated, and the township\u2019s bank account was frozen to prevent any unauthorized activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Franklin County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating, along with the township and the bank\u2019s cybersecurity department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/almost-200k-stolen-cybersecurity-incident-074929327.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost $200K stolen in cybersecurity incident in Ohio, trustees say https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/almost-200k-stolen-cybersecurity-incident-074929327.html Publish Date: 2026-03-25 03:49:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/whio_cox_articles_828\/c9fc6858554b7cf29fa7993a09cc237c","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227327,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227325\/revisions\/227327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}