Facebook announced Friday that nearly 50 million accounts had been breached this week by an unknown attacker.
Facebook’s statement:
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. We’re taking this incredibly seriously and wanted to let everyone know what’s happened and the immediate action we’ve taken to protect people’s security.
Our investigation is still in its early stages. But it’s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted “View As”, a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people’s accounts. Access tokens are the equivalent of digital keys that keep people logged in to Facebook so they don’t need to re-enter their password every time they use the app.
Here is the action we have already taken. First, we’ve fixed the vulnerability and informed law enforcement.
Second, we have reset the access tokens of the almost 50 million accounts we know were affected to protect their security. We’re also taking the precautionary step of resetting access tokens for another 40 million accounts that have been subject to a “View As” look-up in the last year. As a result, around 90 million people will now have to log back in to Facebook, or any of their apps that use Facebook Login. After they have logged back in, people will get a notification at the top of their News Feed explaining what happened.
Third, we’re temporarily turning off the “View As” feature while we conduct a thorough security review.
This attack exploited the complex interaction of multiple issues in our code. It stemmed from a change we made to our video uploading feature in July 2017, which impacted “View As.” The attackers not only needed to find this vulnerability and use it to get an access token, they then had to pivot from that account to others to steal more tokens.
Since we’ve only just started our investigation, we have yet to determine whether these accounts were misused or any information accessed. We also don’t know who’s behind these attacks or where they’re based. We’re working hard to better understand these details — and we will update this post when we have more information, or if the facts change. In addition, if we find more affected accounts, we will immediately reset their access tokens.
People’s privacy and security is incredibly important, and we’re sorry this happened. It’s why we’ve taken immediate action to secure these accounts and let users know what happened. There’s no need for anyone to change their passwords. But people who are having trouble logging back into Facebook — for example because they’ve forgotten their password — should visit our Help Center. And if anyone wants to take the precautionary action of logging out of Facebook, they should visit the “Security and Login” section in settings. It lists the places people are logged into Facebook with a one-click option to log out of them all.
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has received a new Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) five-year grant focused on maternal behavioral health through expansion of services, including telehealth. The more than $600,000 annual grant—Safeguarding Two Lives: Expanding Early Identification & Access to Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Abuse Screening, Treatment and Referral—will support the Kansas Connecting Communities (KCC) program.
“We are proud and excited to receive this very competitive grant,” said KDHE Secretary Jeff Andersen. “The fact that only six other states were funded for this demonstrates the effectiveness of KDHE’s vision, work, progress and proposed plan to support Kansas mothers and families.”
KCC is a collaborative effort between KDHE Title V Maternal and Child Health, the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and several key state and local partners to improve the mental health and well-being of pregnant and postpartum women through increased screening, referral, treatment and recovery support services. KCC will increase statewide access (with a regional approach) to screening, assessment and treatment for maternal depression and substance use disorders.
For the initial pilot program, KCC will be implemented in 10 southeast Kansas counties, utilizing a phased approach to launch across the state. The project has five overarching goals developed around increasing capacity and improving mental and behavioral health screening and services for pregnant and postpartum women in our state. Goals include: developing and disseminating training and toolkits; utilizing telehealth and/or community resources; developing service coordination across providers; provide behavioral health and substance use services; and align state and local partnerships.
The more than $3 million, five-year grant for the project runs from 2018 to 2023.
Key partners include local health departments, community mental health centers with support from the Association of Community Mental Health Centers, Central Kansas Foundation, Heartland Telehealth, Project ECHO, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program, and Wichita State University Community Engagement Institute. A comprehensive process and outcome evaluation conducted by the University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research will ensure accountability through quality improvement and performance monitoring throughout this five-year project.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.
HAYS, Kan.-Hays High finished 2-1 at their home quadrangular on Thursday at the Hays High Gym. The Lady Indians opened up with Salina South and won the first set 25-18. Hays had a 24-23 lead in the second set but couldn’t hold it and lost 25-27. Hays never led in the third set and fell by a score of 20-25 and lost the match two sets to one.
The Lady Indians came out of the gate slow in their second match of the night against Abilene, dropping the first set 18-25. They trailed the Cowgirls 20-21 late but battled back and won 27-25 to force a second set. The Lady Indians trailed 17-21 late in the third set but battled back by scoring eight of the next 10 points to win the set and secure the match.
Norton was up in the last match of the night and Hays took care of business in straight sets winning 25-19 and 25-16. The Lady Indians had several girls step up on the evening but none more than Jaysa Wichers who really added an extra dimension at the net. It was a total team effort tonight for this senior laden team who has now improved to 10-9 on the season.
The stats were again impressive for Hays. Tasiah Nunnery led the team with 39 kills on the night and chipped in with three aces against Abilene. Hannah McGuire poured in 61 assists and Kallie Leiker had 44 assists. The Lady Indians will compete in the Great Bend Tournament on Saturday.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Douglas County sheriff’s deputy assigned to the jail is charged with having sexual relations with a female inmate.
Mario Godinez photo Douglas Co. Sheriff Facebook
A complaint filed in Douglas County District Court says Mario Godinez says he had sexual relations with a woman at the jail on Jan. 12.
Douglas County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sgt. Kristen Channel says Godinez was a deputy at the time. She says he resigned in April after being placed on administrative leave with the incident was investigated.
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office investigated the allegations and turned its investigation over to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, which filed the charge.
Godinez, who is not in custody, made his first appearance Wednesday. The judge ordered Godinez to be jailed before the end of this week.
Donna M. Kuhn, age 83 of Hays, KS formerly of Ellis, KS passed away, Thursday, September 27, 2018 at the Hays Medical Center.
Funeral services will be at 10:00 A.M., Monday, October 1, 2018 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Ellis. Burial will follow in the St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, September 30, 2018 from 4-6:00 P.M., with a Ellis Daughters of Isabella rosary service at 5:45 PM all at Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory, 2509 Vine St., Hays, KS 67601. Visitation will be held on Monday from 9:00 A.M. until service time at the church.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the DSNWK Employment Program and/or the Senior Companion Program at FHSU
SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal shooting and have identified the victim.
First responders on the scene of Wednesday night’s fatal shooting-photo courtesy KWCH
Just before 9p.m.Wednesday, police responded to report of a shooting in the 2600 Block of North Amidon, according to Lt. Todd Ojile.
Officers located a 23-year-old man identified as Jose DeLeon
with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators learned DeLeon and his 18-year-old step-brother were leaving a set of apartments to the north of the shooting scene.
As they left the apartments in the vehicle, they almost struck a truck driven by a 36-year-old man that was southbound on Amidon.
As the truck passed, the vehicle with DeLeon and his step-brother pulled in behind the truck, then sped up and got in front of the truck and stopped.
With both vehicles stopped, the DeLeon got out of the car carrying a golf club, approached the truck and started making demands for money. The 36-year-old driver refused.
A verbal altercation ensued and the DeLeon started hitting the truck’s back window with the golf club. The truck driver pulled a handgun from truck and shot DeLeon according to Ojile.
The 36-year-old did stay on the scene, called 911 and was taken by police for an interview and released, according to Ojile.
The incident is still under investigation and Ojile does not believe there will be any charges in the case.
GOVE COUNTY — Two people were injured in an accident just before 1p.m. Thursday in Gove County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Ram 1500 driven by Daniel Leon Weyand, 71, Quinter, was southbound on Kansas 23 five miles south of Interstate 70.
As a 2003 Kenworth semi driven by Terry L. Marlow, 60, Quinter, pulled out from Gove County Road X, the driver attempted moved to the left lane to pass the slower Ram pickup.
The pickup then made a left turn in front of the semi. The semi struck the pickup in the driver’s side and the pickup rolled onto its top.
Weyand and Marlow were transported to Gove County Medical Center. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
The rally is a month before the November election. The President will stump for gubernatorial candidate Sec. of State Kris Kobach, 2nd district congressional nominee Steve Watkins and other GOP candidates. Tickets for Trump’s MAGA Rally are available here.
A favorite Fort Hays State University homecoming activity for descendants of the Wallace and Shirley Robinson family over the years has been the 5K race.
By DIANE GASPER-O’BRIEN FHSU University Relations and Marketing
Homecoming at Fort Hays State University has long been special for descendants of the Wallace and Shirley Robinson family.
For years, between 10 and 20 family members gathered on Saturday morning of homecoming to run the 5K race.
This year, more than two dozen of the Robinson children, their spouses, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are expected to be in Hays for the 2018 homecoming festivities. Not a single one is scheduled to line up for Saturday’s early-morning run, though, because this year, they have a lot of other activities on their homecoming agenda.
The Robinsons have been named the Tiger Alumni Family of the Year, a distinction which is in its second year and sponsored by the FHSU Alumni Association. Two dozen family members and their spouses attended Fort Hays State, and 16 of those graduated.
All nine of the Robinson children, who were raised in Hays, attended the hometown university, and all but two of those received bachelor’s degrees in areas ranging from speech pathology and psychology to business fields, from history to computer technology.
Wallace and Shirley Robinson grew up in east central Kansas, and both attended college in Emporia, where Wallace played football for Emporia State and Shirley attended a private school, the College of Emporia. They started a family before moving to Hays, where Wallace went into the wholesale ice cream business, King’s Quality Ice Cream, with his brother, George.
While Shirley took care of their growing family as a stay-at-home mom, Wallace helped run the business. One April day in 1964, the Robinson family’s lives changed dramatically.
Wallace filled in for one of his route drivers who was ill, and while driving the roads of northwest Kansas, the steering went out on the ice cream truck. The truck rolled, Wallace was thrown out and lost his life when he was pinned underneath the truck. Wallace was just 40 years old, and Shirley was left to raise their nine children ages 6 months to 16 years.
She used her husband’s life insurance money to build a new house in Hays, designed for a preschool in the home, which she ran for 30 years. All the while, Shirley stressed that each of her children would attend college, and she took classes at Fort Hays State herself.
“It was just always a given that we would all go to college,” said Ruth Heffel, the third oldest of the Robinson siblings (and oldest girl) who was 13 years old when her father died.
“I didn’t know people didn’t go to college,” added Heffel, who earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from FHSU and worked at Fort Hays State for more than 25 years.
The Robinsons all stayed close to home to continue their education and still remain active with their alma mater. An avid sports fan, Shirley attended Tiger athletic events, as well as other university activities, into her 80s. A Foster Grandparent at FHSU, Shirley died in 2006 at the age of 83.
Shirley’s children followed her lead in becoming involved in their university, then and now.
Heffel joined the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and her younger sisters, Sheryl Rogers and Sharon Irvin, later followed suit. So, too, did Rogers’ daughter, Kelsee Hirsch, who remains active with the sorority today along with Hirsch’s sister-in-law, Carin Rogers. Four of the Robinson brothers were members of fraternities during their college days.
“I gained sisters when I joined a sorority,” said Hirsch, who graduated with a bachelor of science in nursing in 2013.
Hirsch said that because of her experience at FHSU, her husband, Bryan, chose to attend there as a non-traditional student.
“We bragged about what a great school it was,” Hirsch said, “and Bryan’s younger brother and his brother’s wife decided to come to FHSU.”
While Fort Hays State means different things to different members of the family, Hirsch said she has “very few family members who haven’t been impacted by this institution. FHSU has been such a big part of my family’s lives and will continue to impact us for many more years.”
Hirsch, a registered nurse at HaysMed The University of Kansas Health System, said she tried to get the most out of her college experience while working toward her degree.
“I loved my experience as a student worker, nursing student, sorority girl and now an alum,” she said. “More than likely, my kids and nieces and nephew will be Tigers one day, and that makes me smile.”
Shirley Robinson surely would be smiling Saturday, knowing that nearly 30 of her family members were representing her family being honored by the FHSU Alumni Association.
“Mom would absolutely be thrilled with this,” Heffel said. “She wanted us all to go to college. We all had part-time jobs growing up, and she made it happen.”
Heffel recently retired from the HaysMed Foundation after a long, successful fundraising career. She said that while she and her siblings obviously learned a lot of responsibility growing up, she also credits her Fort Hays State education for her success.
“I believe, and I think all my siblings would agree, that the education we got at Fort Hays State was equal to, if not better than, any other university we could have gone to,” she said. “The hands-on experience we got at Fort Hays State was part of a quality education that surpassed any other. I know one of my nieces says that she would put herself up against anybody with what she learned at FHSU.”
That niece, Kayla Casey – who earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance in 2009 – and her husband, Allen, will be making the longest trip this weekend, traveling from their home in Moscow, Idaho.
The Robinsons’ oldest sibling, David, who lives in the Denver area, won’t be able to attend this year’s homecoming. But his eight younger siblings promise to fill him in on the weekend.
The other five brothers and their hometowns are: Greg, Weskan; Joel, Denver; Jamie, Topeka; and Mark, Westminster, Colo.; and Phillip, Aurora, Colo.
Heffel says her house will be “home base” for her brothers and her sisters – both who are making the trip from their farms near McCracken – and their families.
Heffel said the family always looks forward to getting together, but the alumni family honor makes it even more special this year.
“I was shocked when I heard we were chosen as the Tiger alumni family,” Heffel said. “Everybody is really looking forward to it.”
The Robinson family will ride in the 1 p.m. parade down Main Street Saturday, on a trailer behind the vehicle carrying FHSU President Tisa Mason and her husband, Bill. The Robinsons – who will range in from 1 year old to 69 – will be dressed in gold Tiger T-shirts from the alumni association.
After gathering at the Heffel home for a “tailgate party,” the Robinson family then will attend the 7 p.m. football game between the Tigers and the University of Central Oklahoma, where the family will be recognized at halftime.
Vine & Dine offers a cornucopia of savory foods from many of Hays’ top restaurants from Vine Street and beyond!
Enjoy sample tastings and take home fabulous raffle prizes for restaurant meals and more at our Vine & Dine 2018 food festival, Sun., Oct. 28, noon to 4 pm at Big Creek Crossing.
Tickets are on sale now. Don’t miss this opportunity to try out the best of Hays’ cuisine, win raffles, enjoy music, have fun — and make a difference in our community at this family-friendly event.
Tickets: $20 per adult; $20 for 2 children, aged 4-12; Children 3 and under are free. Order online through eventbrite — no fees!
All proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity of Ellis County to help build homes for our neighbors in need. To date, participating restaurants include:
Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
Gella’s
Golden Griddle
Hickok’s Steakhouse
Jalisco Restaurant
JD’s Chicken
Jimmy John’s
Old Chicago
Pasta Jay’s Hays
Professor’s
Snow Cone Express
Starbucks
Taco Shop
Thirsty’s Brew Pub and Grill
Whiskey Creek Wood Fire Grille
More restaurants will be joining us, so check back for updated listings.
Among many delightful raffle prizes are dinners from Osaki, Sake2Me, Vernie’s and treats from Popt! Gourmet Popcorn.
35th Annual Hays Arts Council FIVE STATE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
~ ~ ~ call for entries
– open to all photographers in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, & Oklahoma
– $1500 in total cash awards ($500 each in nature, people, & open categories)
– all subjects, processes, sizes, & levels of experience are eligible as long as work is original & has not been previously selected for exhibition
– judging (& entry) from actual works (NOT electronic submission)
– entry deadline Nov 9
– exhibition opens Dec 7 as the anchor of the HAC’s Winter Art Walk
The 2018 “call for entries” brochure is available to print at our website: www.haysartscouncil.org (where you’ll also find images, info & catalogs from previous years)
– contact us at [email protected] or 785-625-7522 to receive hard copy by mail (brochures also available at the Hays Arts Center)
William Clayton “Bill” Jones Sr., 71, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on September 24, 2018, at Via Christi Hospital at St. Francis, Wichita, Kansas.
He was born December 1, 1946, in Denver, Colorado, the son of Ernest Warren and Ula Jean (Shannon) Jones. Bill graduated in 1965 from Hoisington High School.
A longtime resident of Hoisington, Bill retired in 2011.
On May 17, 1969, he married Shirley L. Kisner in Hoisington, Kansas. She preceded him in death on February 25, 2012.
Survivors include; three children, Shannon E. Jones and wife Stephanie of Claflin, Becci L. Starkey and husband Jess of Hoisington, and Will C. Jones, Jr. and companion Jennifer of Great Bend; five grandchildren, Seth Jones, Sawyer Starkey, Jessica Starkey, Taylor Jones, and Madison Jones; and a great grandson, Aiden Smith.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, and an infant son, James D. Jones.
Funeral service will be 1 p.m., Monday, October 1, 2018, at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Mike Joiner presiding. Burial will follow in St. John Catholic Cemetery.
Friends may call 1-5 p.m., with family to receive friends from 3-5 p.m., Sunday at the funeral home and 9 a.m. until service on Monday.
Memorials may be made to the Golden Belt Humane Society or the American Diabetes Association in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.
