Ignoring The Obvious: IRS Hacked Again
by Norm Beznoska Jr., Contributing Author : Evidently, the lame stream news media is not the least bit interested in informing viewers about the FACT that our SSNs, Tax return PIN numbers, and Tax refunds have been ‘hacked again.’ The IRS operating systems is obsolete and and missing software patches.
If the lame street media was the least bit concerned, they would contact the IRS; Congress, the Senate and the Vacationer-in-Chief in the Oval office who could care less about the people.
Since the "Lame Stream media has failed in informing the public, readers are encouraged to contact them after reading the following article by Jonathan Chew for Fortune and shared by Yahoo News (article shared under the Fair Us Doctrine to alert the general public and readers of this site).
The IRS Says Identity Thieves Hacked Its Systems Again
Identity thieves attempted to breach computer systems at the Internal Revenue Service to file fraudulent tax refunds.
The criminals were especially after E-file PINs, which are used by some individuals to electronically file a return, the agency said in a statement released Tuesday. Around 464,000 unique social security numbers were involved, and of that total, 101,000 SSNs were used to successfully access an E-file PIN.
The thieves used personal taxpayer data that was stolen elsewhere to help generate the PINs, the agency said. No personal data was compromised or disclosed by IRS systems, and affected taxpayers will be notified by mail of the attack. “The IRS is also protecting their accounts by marking them to protect against tax-related identity theft,” the agency added.
Last week, the IRS temporarily could not accept many taxpayer returns after a systemwide computer failure occurred. The agency said this attack was unrelated to the outage.
This year’s attack follows a massive data breach at the IRS in 2015, when hackers stole information from 330,000 taxpayers to successfully file bogus tax refunds and obtain $50 million in federal funds.
A later inspector general report found that the computer system the IRS had been using to detect identity theft may have been vulnerable to hackers.
More from Fortune.com:
Norm Beznoska Jr., aka Navyman Norm, is a contributor to the ARRA News Service
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If the lame street media was the least bit concerned, they would contact the IRS; Congress, the Senate and the Vacationer-in-Chief in the Oval office who could care less about the people.
Since the "Lame Stream media has failed in informing the public, readers are encouraged to contact them after reading the following article by Jonathan Chew for Fortune and shared by Yahoo News (article shared under the Fair Us Doctrine to alert the general public and readers of this site).
The IRS Says Identity Thieves Hacked Its Systems Again
Identity thieves attempted to breach computer systems at the Internal Revenue Service to file fraudulent tax refunds.
The criminals were especially after E-file PINs, which are used by some individuals to electronically file a return, the agency said in a statement released Tuesday. Around 464,000 unique social security numbers were involved, and of that total, 101,000 SSNs were used to successfully access an E-file PIN.
The thieves used personal taxpayer data that was stolen elsewhere to help generate the PINs, the agency said. No personal data was compromised or disclosed by IRS systems, and affected taxpayers will be notified by mail of the attack. “The IRS is also protecting their accounts by marking them to protect against tax-related identity theft,” the agency added.
Last week, the IRS temporarily could not accept many taxpayer returns after a systemwide computer failure occurred. The agency said this attack was unrelated to the outage.
This year’s attack follows a massive data breach at the IRS in 2015, when hackers stole information from 330,000 taxpayers to successfully file bogus tax refunds and obtain $50 million in federal funds.
A later inspector general report found that the computer system the IRS had been using to detect identity theft may have been vulnerable to hackers.
More from Fortune.com:
- A Computer Fail at the IRS Won't Let You File Your Taxes
- Dealing With the IRS Could Get Even Worse
- The IRS is Being Told to Focus on the Really Rich
Norm Beznoska Jr., aka Navyman Norm, is a contributor to the ARRA News Service
Tags: Norm Beznoska, Navyman Norm, IRS, hacked, again To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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