People recently looking to find out about upcoming youth sports programs may have got an inadvertent eyeful.
As of last week, the top of a “Rutland Recreation and Parks Department” Facebook page was occupied by photos of a scantily clad woman, purportedly a Rutland resident named “Chantria Anney,” who tagged the department in her photos to express “joy all over.” The page’s banner photo was a suggestively cropped version of a woman.
However, the “Rutland Recreation and Parks Department” page is not the page of the Rutland Recreation and Parks Department. The official page, titled “Rutland Recreation,” instead featured photos of staff breaking up ice at Giorgetti Arena to replace it with turf.
The apparent hacking was enough to affirm recent concerns raised about cybersecurity.
Recreation Superintendent Kim Peters said she learned of the existence of the second page when called by a reporter, and that she went from believing it was an old page the department no longer used to one that was generated as a “park” page.
She said she was attempting to have it taken down.
“Obviously, it’s concerning to some degree,” said Mayor David Allaire. “I’m not sure what kind of damage, what kind of hacking can be done, but it does raise a red flag.”
The page’s “page transparency” section lists it as having been created on Feb. 10, 2019, and it includes the…
