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Posted on 08/17/2015 5:34:21 PM PDT by markomalley
A breach of taxpayers' information at the Internal Revenue Service was bigger than initially disclosed, the agency said Monday.
Hackers gained access to the information of as many as 220,000 more people than the 104,000 accounts that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in June may have been compromised.
The IRS said it is mailing 220,000 letters notifying people that their information may be compromised. It said that it would also offer free credit protection and Identity Protection PINs to the victims.
The revelation Monday is the result of an IRS review of an earlier incident in the spring, when hackers were able to get access to taxpayer information through an application on the IRS website. The thieves were able to clear the site's security measures, the agency said, because they already had access to taxpayer data from non-IRS sources.
The stolen data could be used to file fraudulent tax returns in the 2016 filing season, the IRS warned. Earlier, it estimated that it may have wrongly paid out as much as $39 million in refunds because of the breach.
The IRS paid out $5.8 billion in fraudulent refunds in 2013, according to the Associated Press.
Both the Treasury inspector general for tax administration and IRS Criminal Investigation are continuing to review the theft.
In June, the agency announced that it would implement new safeguards against identify theft and fraudulent refund claims, beginning this summer.
NOt only are bureaucrats arrogantly stealing our money, but now are stealing our secrets so the Chicoms can exploit them.
IRS needs to be dropped off a steep cliff
No doubt, after the zero leaves office, the revelations will go on forever.
So the US government can’t secure IRS taxpayer data or government employee data or even top secret data in the state department...
But they can black hole any data regarding any investigation of the same government departments... The backups are gone... The hard drives failed... Etc...
What an awesome government we have...
They persecute political opponents, harass taxpayers and give away our private information.
I really love how our gov is looking out for us. /s
Should their IT security department be fired? It seems they have no idea as to what they are doing.
No doubt, after the zero leaves office, the revelations will go on forever.
Really.. Trump is in Deep Cover..
The Villagers are restless.. (picks up torches, serious angst) AND “THEY” know it..
They whom?.. the ones that put That put the Bushs, Clintons and Obama in Office...
If Ted Cruz becomes President the JIG is up.. literally..
SO what do they do?... Think about it.. How do THEY remain out of prison OR worse.?..
ONLY ONE WAY....
Did they happen to be all conservatives and libertarians?
Cruz is smart enough not to challenge The Donald. I just can’t see Trump as president, it’s still just to crazy to even think about. Is he for real? Plenty of time to tell.
“I just can’t see Trump as president”
The same was said about Ronald Reagan.
More blackmail files to the Progressives.
Where are my reparations?
Has anybody seen or heard from or "Cybersecurity Czar"?.
‘Splains Edward Snowden.
Cruz is smart enough not to challenge The Donald. I just can’t see Trump as president, it’s still just to crazy to even think about. Is he for real? Plenty of time to tell.
Why Challenge him he’s saying some of the right things..
so let him alone.. even though he’s a MOLE...
provides BLOCKING.. for a REAL GUY.. not an impostor..
Cruz if not anything is SMART.. much smarter than Trump..
You would think that with all his experience lying IRS Commissioner John Koskinen would have put on a better show of looking surprised and upset!! He probably missed out on the classes given by the Paid White House Liar, Jay Carney, on lying with a straight face and feigning concern.
Hey that WH spokesperson slot is a great gig.
Both Gibbs and Carney are now EVPs making big $$$ at major US corporations - regime affiliates.
Reassigned from Paid Liars for the White House to positions as Paid Liars (aka EVPs but actually Paid Liars) at regime crony capital oligarchies. Incidentally, I saw Jay Carney performing his Paid Liar duties with Amazon defending their “slave/indentured servitude” work environment today.
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