New York State officials with the Department of Labor have announced that they stopped more than 42,000 fraudulent unemployment claims since the pandemic began in mid March.
Teaching in the modern world means relying heavily on internet usage and that has exploded during the pandemic. On Friday it was learned that some New York school districts, potentially locally, have been targets of cyberattacks. The hackers were able to retrieve private information from teachers in an attempt to scam the state of New York, fraudulently filing for unemployment.