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IRS: Personal Info of 100,000 Taxpayers Accessed Illegally

Posted by Soulskill on from the disincentive-to-pay-your-taxes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Associated Press reports that an online service provided by the IRS was used to gather the personal information of more than 100,000 taxpayers. Criminals were able to scrape the "Get Transcript" system to acquire tax return information. They already had a significant amount of information about these taxpayers, though — the system required a security check that included knowledge of a person's social security number, date of birth, and filing status. The system has been shut down while the IRS investigates and implements better security, and they're notifying the taxpayers whose information was accessed.

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  1. Last Straw by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    That does it. I'm going to quit giving them my business.

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    1. Re:Last Straw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I guess the IRS couldn't fix their security because they were too busy harassing any groups that the Obama Administration didn't like.