ROY, Utah (AP) — A resident in Utah has said a hacker stole her personal information and swapped out her banking information to steal about $400 of weekly unemployment benefits.

“I feel like being robbed at gunpoint would’ve been better than what’s going to happen now,” said Heidi Howell, a Roy resident who lost her job in March and had her identify and unemployment check stolen.

Kevin Burt, director of the Utah Unemployment Insurance Division, said this is the first case he’s seen among 450,000 people seeking benefits in the state during the coronavirus pandemic. He believes the hacker got her login information from another website.

“Make sure that you have a secure password,” Burt said. “I think that helps quite a bit — that’s different than your other passwords that you use for more casual online interactions.”

He added: “Don’t use the same thing to log onto all of your accounts, because if you have a vulnerability in one account, now all of a sudden, all of your accounts are compromised.”

Howell said she used a unique password and is not sure how someone gained access.

Burt said the state has not seen much of a rise in hacks to the unemployment system, although fraud is up nationwide because of the historic volume of claims being filed.