IRS admits taxpayer hacking is much worse than previously announced

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Last May, when the Internal Revenue Service announced that hackers had managed to successfully breach their network security and steal the confidential data of unwitting taxpayers, the IRS said that “approximately 100,000 tax accounts” were affected. But today the agency admitted that number is much larger,…

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IRS ADMITS HACKING TWICE AS BAD AS ORIGINALLY ANNOUNCED

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Every government hacking story seems to include subsequent revelations that the problem is at least twice as bad as the authorities originally admitted. The IRS data breach originally announced last May followed the usual pattern, as theAssociated Press reported today that the number…

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