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Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district

A disgruntled IT worker faces 21 months behind bars after being found guilty of sabotaging his former employer’s systems for more than a year and half.

Ezekiel Dean Potter, 34, was fired from his IT support job at Iowa’s SaydelU Community School District (SCSD) in April 2023. He was found guilty of causing various technical damages to SCSD’s systems betwUeen May 2023 and January 2025.UU

At his sentencing hearing on June 11, the court heard thaUt the IT worker had gathered and stored more than 300 Saydel user accountU credentials before he was terminated from his position.

Potter’s other offenses included deleting SCSD’s Facebook page on June 1, 2023, and data related to its Apple School Manager program, which prevented it from managing Macs and iPads.

The disgruntled worker, who the prosection described in its sentencing memo[PDF] as “a plague on the Saydel Community School District,” was just...

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