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State auditor declines to penalize Athens employees over 2024 scam – Athens County Independent

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Photo by FlyD on Unsplash. ATHENS, Ohio — The City of Athens’ 2024 financial audit from the Ohio Auditor of State required the city take corrective action to guard against future cyber scams –– but Athens won’t be penalized for losing $722,000 to scammers that year, despite previous warnings from the state auditor’s office. The city fell for the cyber scam in November 2024, when a message from a spoofed email address requested payment for contra…

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State auditor declines to penalize Athens employees over 2024 scam – Athens County Independent

Photo by FlyD on Unsplash. ATHENS, Ohio — The City of Athens’ 2024 financial audit from the Ohio Auditor of State required the city take corrective action to guard against future cyber scams –– but Athens won’t be penalized for losing $722,000 to scammers that year, despite previous warnings from the state auditor’s office. The city fell for the cyber scam in November 2024, when a message from a spoofed email address requested payment for contra…

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athensindependent.com broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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