Hackers gained access to personal information of 104,000 taxpayers this spring, downloading an online service the Internal Revenue Service uses to give Americans access to their past tax returns, the agency said Tuesday.
The information included several years’ worth of returns and other tax information on file with the IRS, Commissioner John Koskinen said in a press conference.
The numbers are up. .... Now it's 104,000 taxpayers with stolen information.
“The numbers are up. .... Now it’s 104,000 taxpayers with stolen information.”
Wait until you see the revised numbers next quarter.
Your number of affected tax payers is low because the IRS deliberately low balled their estimate.
Take a close look at your 1040. If you are married your wife’s data is on there. If you have children, their data is also there.
IMHO the IRS just reported the number of people whose name and identy data appeared on the first line of the 1040 - not all of the dependents included on the form.
Tell me again why we should use the web to accomplish/help with our taxes.
