Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A major attack this year by cyber security criminals on the computer network at the U.S. Internal Revenue Serviceoriginated in Russia, sources confirmed to Fox News late Wednesday. The Associated Press has also cited two anonymous sources who reported the IRS believes the hackers are part of a sophisticated criminal operation in Russia. Neither report connected the attack to the Russian government. But both pointed out that this is not the first time that the IRS has been successfully breached by cyber thieves. Taxpayers whose accounts were accessed will be notified and provided with credit monitoring services, the IRS said. The IRS inspector-general reported in 2012 hackers managed to manipulate the IRS system into sending 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania. Another 343 tax refunds were sent to another address, this one in Shanghai. Following these attacks, system administrators tweaked the network safeguards to block other hackers. This year’s attack began sometime in February, according to the report, and continued until mid-May. So far, the thieves have stolen at least $50 million in fraudulent tax refunds. That figure does not include the cost of tracking the breach, nor the expense involved in fixing it and preventing future attempts. […]
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