Hackers stole more than $6 million from New Haven Public Schools, Justin Elicker, the city’s mayor, said on Thursday.
A little more than half of that money, $3.6 million, has since been recovered, and an investigation into who was responsible for the theft is underway. For now, the city has stopped its use of electronic money transfers, except for employee payroll, and will instead use checks to make payments.
“It is shocking to me that someone is so greedy that they would steal money from public school children,” Mr. Elicker said in an interview, calling the hackers “criminals” who were “completely unethical.”
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