IRS Employees Sent Sensitive Taxpayer Info to Their Personal Email Accounts

Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 17, 2016 | Ali Meyer

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IRS employees sent emails with sensitive taxpayer information to their own personal email accounts, according to an audit from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
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Additionally, from May to June 2015, 49 percent of IRS employees in the small business and self-employed division sent 326 unencrypted emails containing 8,031 different taxpayers’ personally identifiable information to other IRS employees and other non-IRS email accounts.
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Karen Schiller, commissioner at the small business/self-employed division, said the audit shows where the agency can improve upon its controls.

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[Paladin2]

Fascists, every one.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

OK, Jeff; I drove you from Walmart to Walmart when you were running for Senate in the mid-1990s to meet the voters around Birmingham. Now it’s your turn to act. Get these people indicted and punished.

[NautiNurse]

49 percent of IRS employees in the small business and self-employed division

This is one very easy way to begin RIF, with cause.

Drain the swamp. Begin with Koskinen.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Was it because of Hillary they thought this was fine, or was it because of this Hillary thought it was fine, or was there just a mess of this going on all over?

[rktman]

Meh! Even (p)residential candidates (former, now loser) need not worry about leaving confidential data unsecured. But take a pic in a submarine, BOOM! 😡

[HiTech RedNeck]

At any rate, it’s like running a government became a hobby for amusement under Ole Big Ears. Oh ha ha ha, this is so funny, we’re dissing the country and we don’t give a shit, come on try and make us!

The sane and very fed up remainder of the country’s answer: Here’s Donald Trump. He will.

[leftcoaster]

As long as none of them were marked “Confidential”, “Secret”, or “Top Secret”, no one did anything wrong. /sarc

[Fungi]

Koskinen perjured himself in congressional testimony. Remember that hard drive little bastard Koskinen? He should be behind bars. Why do these arrogant bastards have no regard for the law?

[4Liberty]

Guess they're doing some work at home. That's what's surprising.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But even there, there are customary security measures. There are VPNs and dedicated machines for the home computing platforms.

[4Liberty]

I don’t think they’re working it was sarcasm.
Unless Tea Party harassment is classified as ‘Work.’

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s more like a hobby for them.

[Secret Agent Man]

Destroy the irs as it is. 5-10% staff just to send thank you cards back.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And the army of Obamacare support. With Obamacare gone, so is the need for its support.

[FreedomPoster]

Improve on controls!?

People should be fired over that sort of thing.

YOU’RE FIRED!

[FreedomPoster]

You should send a formal personal letter saying exactly that. Seriously.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

Yeah, maybe so. But he’s so busy, it might not have much of an impression. I sent him a letter about 25 years ago about a problem with the Birmingham administration. But, OK. I’ll do it. I remember it makes a big impression if you send a telegram, but I understand telegrams no longer exist.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

But I can send a hell of a letter.

[FreedomPoster]

Do it!

Seriously, this stuff needs prosecution. I think it a good chance this is wrapped up in the retribution on TEA Party groups using the IRS.