Ohio’s unemployment system paid $189K to scammers because of computer code flaw
The flaw is “the root cause” of a surge in unemployment fraud attempts that forced thousands of Ohioans to wait for hours to unfreeze their accounts. COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio’s unemployment office said Monday it’s paid more than $189,000 to scammers and frozen more than 28,000 accounts as the result of a flaw in their system’s computer…