Posted on 09/02/2022 2:47:22 PM PDT by DFG
The Internal Revenue Service 'mistakenly' posted the names, contact data and financial information from about 120,000 taxpayers' retirement accounts.
The US Treasury Department determined that a human coding error allowed the confidential information to be posted on the IRS' website before it was taken down, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Among the information published were the names, contact information and finances of individuals who submitted 990-T forms regarding their IRA plans.
On Friday, the Treasury assured Congress that Social Security numbers, full income information and other key pieces of financial data were not published and that those affected would be contacted in the coming weeks.
The Treasury and IRS blamed the mistake on a coding error that was implemented last year, when 990-T forms were allowed to be filed electronically.
The form is often required for individuals whose IRA earn certain types of business income within their retirement plans.
While this information is supposed to be kept private, non-profits submit the same form, and that data is meant to be open to the public.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Then you have the Daily Mail advertising the error for all to see.
Wait til there’s 87k more of them to screw things up.
IRS error: Mistakes happen. So what? We forgave ourselves already.
Our error on tax matter: You are losing your pension, bank account, your house and your pension. And going to jail unless our armed agents decide to shoot you down like a dog.
I was one of the people who got a letter from the IRS maybe 3 years or so ago. Data breach. They said they thought it was unfortunate. Someone tried to get a college loan using my name and bank through the IRS records and were refused.
sorry for pension repeated.
The Federal government contracts the lowest bidder for IT support. This is nothing.
Be assured, the new IRS hires are screened extremely well against having any past conservative orientation a.d friends.
GUARANTEED !!
Oh bull excrement
Right, it’s always an error when they do something wrong and pull a boner like this. But keep in mind, that they always say we meant to do it whenever we make a mistake of any kind on our taxes.
Not a mistake. Most likely from RNC Dinors list. This is what they mean when they say “punish our enemies and reward our friemds”.
Not to worry. Those87,000 IRS coders will be there soon to help protect us.
(sorry for pension repeated)
You cad!!!
DFWgator, put him in the comfy chair and poke him with the soft pillows!!!
Was it done by one of the new diversity hires?
“human coding error”
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge!
Must have been one of them coding jobs the administration’s been touting for the last however long... if you don’t like working in a factory just get a coding job learn how to code... I’d like to see one of them MFS learn how to code, they have no idea what they’re talking.
Hint: You know what we can do to you. And claim an oopsy.
Accident? Sure...
And they must be fluent in COBOL and Mandarin
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