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City to recover $205k from cyber theft – Athens County Independent

City officials said mediation returned $205,000, adding to a $200,000 insurance payout and leaving the city with a chance at more restitution.

ATHENS, Ohio — The City of Athens will recover over a quarter of the nearly $722,000 stolen from it in a 2024 cyber scam, city officials said at a press conference Monday, March 30. The city negotiated the return of $205,000 through mediation of a civil lawsuit with another scam victim that had a claim to the recovered funds, according to a prepared statement City Service-Safety Director Andrew Stone read aloud at the press conference.  The set…

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athensindependent.com broke the news in on Thursday, April 2, 2026.
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