A pair of high legislators urged the administration of Gov. Charlie Baker to halt pursuing overpaid unemployment advantages for the following five-plus months, calling for extra time to untangle an advanced monetary scenario.

Rep. Josh Cutler and Sen. Patricia Jehlen, the co-chairs of the Labor and Workforce Improvement Committee, stated they imagine the Bay State must work by new federal steering outlining extra situations by which states ought to apply a “blanket waiver” to recovering overpayments the place the recipient was not at fault.

“In mild of those new developments, we respectfully request that the Division of Unemployment Help pause assortment for non-fault overpayments from residents till the tip of July of 2022,” the 2 Democrats wrote in a letter to Labor and Workforce Improvement Secretary Rosalin Acosta.

Ransomware gang hacks 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers have been hit by a ransomware assault, with cyber criminals claiming they stole a few of the soccer crew’s monetary knowledge.

The ransomware gang BlackByte just lately posted a few of the purportedly stolen crew paperwork on a darkish web page in a file marked “2020 Invoices.” The gang didn’t make any of its ransom calls for public or specify how a lot knowledge it had stolen or encrypted.

The crew stated in an announcement Sunday that it just lately turned conscious of a “community safety incident” that had disrupted a few of its company community programs. The 49ers stated they’d notified legislation enforcement and employed cybersecurity corporations to help.