Posted on 06/08/2016 11:47:44 AM PDT by jazusamo
The IRS’s computer hack was worse than previously admitted, and the tax agency failed to alert thousands of people that their information was stolen, and didn’t give credit monitoring assistance to nearly 80,000 others who were targeted, an inspector general said Wednesday.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says nearly 1 million accounts were potentially targeted, and nearly 360,000 people actually had their accounts broken into. That’s far more than the 220,000 hacks the tax agency initially acknowledged.
In thousands of instances, the IRS missed the signs of a hack, the inspector general said.
“While the IRS acted swiftly to disable its application upon learning of the data breach, our auditors found that it did not identify all taxpayers who were potentially affected, and whose tax information was at risk of being used by unauthorized individuals,” said J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
He said the IRS did notify the taxpayers after the inspector general pointed out the botch.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Oh, I see. It's now the individual's account not the IRS' database record of an individual taxpayer. I didn't know I could open an "account" with the IRS. Will the IRS let me withdraw all of the money I've been forced to pay into my "account."
And I bet it still hasn't been fixed, even now.
The last I thought, IRS was still running Windows 3.1 off of 'floppy discs'.
You remember what those are ,.. right ?
About the same age as the game : "Pong"!
Was it a hack, or were they invited in? Wouldn't doubt the latter.
I wouldn’t either with the caliber of people there.
Get rid of the IRS. Stop taxing INCOME. Move to consumption taxation, and REALLY put the end to this kind of crap.
FAIR TAX is the way to go...
Do you expect the truth from the biggest bunch of fascists there is?
Someone there needs to be fired.
Preferably from a cannon.
The IRS lied? Oh Lordy save me.. it can’t be true...
Note to hackers:
Next time please destroy everything in your path.
Signed, A. Taxpayer.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.