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Having trouble accessing DC.gov websites? That’s because they’ve been under attack by hackers today.

Bryan Sivak, who took over the city’s troubled Office of the Chief Technology Officer in 2009 and returned it to respectability before emotionally leaving office last December, has accepted a job as Maryland’s first Chief Innovation Officer.

In yesterday’s Go Home Already, I bemoaned the fact that D.C. was lacking an equivalent to this awesome map of New York City’s 311 service requests. As it turns out, I just needed to do a little more digging around the Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s data website.

Freeman Klopott has the story that the District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer was overcharged by a D.C.-based company to the tune of $3.1 million, including $600,000 in profit, between 2006 and 2008. Delivering Business and Technology Solutions Inc. (DBTS), which had received close to a whopping 20 percent of OCTO’s outsourced tech projects and employs at least one former OCTO staffer, had charged D.C. for its employees’ paid time off and also lacked a paper trail for its subcontractors. (Both are pretty big no-nos in the world of procurement.)

Two pieces of courtroom action to keep track of from today. The first is former Jim Graham chief-of-staff Ted Loza, who appeared in a brief hearing today to enter a plea of not guilty, as expected. D.C. Wire has the report. Loza stands accused of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and making false statements. His trial is not expected to start until October. Second is a guilty plea in the nearly forgotten OCTO case. Sushil Bansal,…

Chalk up another guilty plea in the OCTO bribery and embezzlement case. Following in the footsteps of fellow ex-OCTO cohort Yusuf Acar, Farrukh Awan admitted his guilt in federal court on Friday, and will be sentenced to up to two-and-a-half years in prison for his part in the kickback scandal. Awan, who was arrested in March, is the third individual to plead guilty in the scheme, in which OCTO employees took kickbacks and falsified invoices…

Yusuf Acar Yusuf Acar, the former D.C. computer security official who was arrested and charged in March for his part in a bribery scheme that allegedly funneled phony contracts and pay checks through the District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, is expected to plead guilty, the Examiner reports. The full terms of the plea agreement are not yet known, but “Acar would pay back more than $200,000 in stolen money, including $69,000 in…

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has named Bryan Sivak, a founder of the Silicon Valley company InQuira, as his new chief technology officer, both D.C. Wire and City Desk are reporting. Sivak, 34, was introduced for the first time by the mayor at a press conference at city hall this morning. The nominee takes over for interim chief Chris Willey, who had been tasked with minding the OCTO ship since the departure of Vivek Kundra, who…

Ever since the queen of all local government crooks, D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue embezzler Harriette Walters, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, there’s been a tiny little hole in our collective hearts. We’d been following the $50 million tax scam case, and all its twists and turns along the way, since it first broke in 2007. Now that’s it’s over, to where will we turn when we feel…