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What's happening with IRS?

Asked by Jaybee (220points) September 12th, 2015 from iPhone

I heard IRS was ‘hacked’ sometimes in March this year. Is this true?

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Cruiser's avatar

Not surprised as anything connected to the internet has been hacked many times over…time to get used to this reality.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/26/irs-breach-100000-accounts-get-transcript/27980049/

The hackers got in by taking information about taxpayers they’d acquired from other sources and using it to correctly answer several personal identity verification questions in the IRS’ “Get Transcript” application, the IRS said in a statement.

And there it is. When that random dude on Facebook asks you what your first car was you might have just given away the security question for your bank account.

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