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INDIANAPOLIS — A fired IT employee took his revenge on a for-profit online college before he left, changing a password on an account that stored email and course material for 2,000 students, the Indianapolis-based online school has alleged in a lawsuit.

In his own lawsuit, the employee contends that the administrator's password was autosaved on his company laptop that was returned to the college and his firing was racial discrimination.

But lawyers for the American College of Education said Triano Williams of Riverdale, Ill., really wants the school to rehire him as a consultant — for $200,000.

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The American College of Education offers online masters and doctorate degrees to teachers across the USA for $235 to $306 per credit hour. Total costs for a degree can range from $8,000 to more than $10,000, according to information on the school's website.

The college's IT employees had been spread across the country, too, but the school decided early last year to give them a choice to move to Indianapolis or resign and take a severance package. Other IT workers resigned, leaving Triano Williams as the sole systems administrator when he was fired April 1 after refusing to relocate from suburban Chicago, according to the college's lawsuit filed in Marion County Superior Court here.

Before he left, the college alleges that Williams changed the password and login information on a Google account.

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Pay him off so he will provide the password, then arrest him for extortion and sue him for return of the money? Bring in an outside expert to see if he can hack the system? Subject this IT guy to, uh, enhanced interrogation techniques until he gives up the needed information? Next time plan your staff reduction more wisely so at least three people will know if any changes are made within the system?