Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
“I want my life back,” Christine Cortese says. She’s been the victim of tax-related identity theft twice this year. In April, she and her husband received a suspicious bank card in the mail under his name. After showing the Green Dot prepaid card to their accountant, Cortese called the IRS and discovered someone had fraudulently filed for their joint tax refund. They had been hacked. “It took months to fix. First, you’re required to file a report of identity theft with the local police department,” she says. Her husband, a cardiologist, got off work at 2 a.m. and drove to the Upper Dublin Township police station to do just that. “They had no idea what we were talking about,” Cortese recalls, noting that local law enforcement jurisdictions are unfamiliar with the flood of paperwork required in an identity-theft case. She also contacted the IRS’s Identity Protection Specialized Unit (1-800-908-4490), all three credit bureaus, and the state. Then in early September, Cortese and her husband found out they’d been hacked again – this time through the IRS’s online “Get Transcript” database. They had not accessed the database themselves. The IRS shut down the database in May. In August, the agency mailed […]
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