Posted on 04/13/2016 5:26:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A new report from the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan government agency tasked with auditing, evaluating, and investigating government affairs for Congress, faults the Internal Revenue Service for failing to properly secure taxpayer data, leaving taxpayers' private information at the mercy of hackers, both domestic and foreign. The report, delivered to IRS chief John Koskinen on March 28, says the IRS has failed to make recommended improvements to its financial and information-technology procedures.
Unfortunately for taxpayers, the IRS has little motivation to protect the sensitive data it collects, because the agency views government, not taxpayers, as its consumer.
According to the report, the IRS "has not always effectively implemented access and other controls, including elements of its information security program, to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its financial systems and information." Also: "These weaknesses — including both previously reported and newly identified — increase the risk that taxpayer and other sensitive information could be disclosed or modified without authorization."
Other violations of good IT security practices cited in the report include failures to encrypt taxpayers' vital information, weak passwords on servers containing taxpayer data, and easy-to-evade physical security.
Too bad US taxpayers can’t leak John Koskinen’s personal info to Russian hackers.
Information leakage equality.
And Koskinen always looks so smug when he in front of Senators or Congresspeople. I would love to see that smug look turn into a frown because he has been indicted.
Congress used to make the law.
Today, it can’t even oversee the monsters of its creation.
The slave has become the master and the true master refuses to even touch it.
I wonder who has made use of that ability (to modify) ????
These agencies are little thiefdoms that are overseen by the criminal in charge. They need to be investigated, cleaned out cleaned up and brought under control
And then there is Obamacare and the exchanges Websites.
I always, I mean always, get a chuckle out this every time I hear it or see it. Same thing with with all the other "non partisan agencies", i.e. OMB, IRS, BLM, etc . . .
Lois Lerner isn’t in prison yet?
CONgre$$?
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