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IRS Hacked: Government Admits 100,000 Taxpayers' Data Stolen
In an unprecedented move against a government agency, which we are just waiting to hear blamed on Russia, The IRS has admitted that its data has ben compromised...
- *IRS SAYS THIEVES ACCESSED TAX INFORMATION ON 100,000 PAYERS: AP
- *IRS'S KOSKINEN SAYS THERE WAS UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS FEB-MAY
Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday.
The information included tax returns and other tax information on file with the IRS.
The IRS said the thieves accessed a system called "Get Transcript." In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address.
"The IRS notes this issue does not involve its main computer system that handles tax filing submission; that system remains secure," the agency said in a statement.
The IRS said thieves targeted the system from February to mid-May. The service has been temporarily shut down.
"In all, about 200,000 attempts were made from questionable email domains, with more than 100,000 of those attempts successfully clearing authentication hurdles," the agency said. "During this filing season, taxpayers successfully and safely downloaded a total of approximately 23 million transcripts."
Tax returns can include a host of personal information that can help someone steal an identity, including Social Security numbers and birthdates of dependents and spouses. However, the IRS said the thieves appeared to already have a lot of personal information about the victims.
The IRS said it is notifying taxpayers whose information was accessed.
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One wonders if they found Lois Lerner's emails while they were in there?
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another reason not to pay taxes
Fuck does it matter? Every man and his dog is hording metadata and more now.
The IRS calling some other group / person a thief? I wonder how many .gov employees see the irony in that.
Unreal..
Just remember this when some idiot suggests we have all digital currency.
once the currency is all digital we won't have to file returns anymore. We won't need to check our info and the IRS won't have to talk with anyone. They will just help themselves to our digits. They will say congress requires us to fund the government and we took what we needed. They will just tap everyone for 10, 20, 30 percent and more of what you have on record until they have enough to cover the congressional hookers.
Coincidentally, only Ron Paul supporters had their tax records stolen.
Did they get any of Lois Lerner's emails?
A moar important question.
Does anybody really expect digital currency / banking to be secure?
"once the currency is all digital we won't have to file returns anymore. "
Yes and no.
Since their gulags will still need prisoners--slave labor--there will still be a "filing" requirement.
"What did you do to get sent here to Guantanamo #34? My computer filed my "return" with the European date format. And you..."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
"Your filing said you owed SDR2,546.78, but we estimated it to be SDR2,546.79. Therefore we assessed and took out an additional SDR876.89 for penalties and interest."
or Federal HealthCare -
seriously, 100K hits out of 200K attempts is a damn good %
They prolly thought they needed to dbl click.
Why couldn't they do something really useful with access to IRS computers, like send "HCF" (Halt and Catch Fire), or RTST (Rewind Tape and Shred Tape) commands?
Not all digital currencies are equal.
Some whole number between -1 and 1.
Too Cool.... The image in the header is from IRS Records. They put out a series of "NoSpeak" albums back in the early nineties that were just excellent. Thanks Tyler ... Going to go downstairs and get some vinyl and sit back for the rest of the day.
100K? that's all. A "convenient" number-mebbe somebody preparing a "campaign financing scam"-needs some SS numbers and addresses to legit the overseas shady cash laundering?
why do I smell a Clinton lurking in the background?
Let me guess, 100,000 conservatives had their info stolen?
LOL ... was wondering why my refund never arrived.
You do not over pay them. Don't even joke about that.
100,000.....i guess we now know what the daily viewership of ZH is.....
Hey IRS - no need to spend the money sending me a letter - just have the NSA interrupt one of my phone calls or they can text me. Okay?
This use of "thieves" is all very confusing. Who are the thieves?
Everyone!
Lmfao! I just clicked the link. Good one.
But, hey, if Everyone is a thief then from whom does all the stuff come from that thieves must steal???
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Someone divided by 1000 before the press release
Double Seasonal Probation.
Header should read ' IRS hacked Government '. If there were Rule of Law the Government would all be incarcerated.
Hope they took my 2004 debt. That sure would be nice.
I would expect nothing less from an organization run by a Physics PhD. Put an engineer in charge of the IRS and we all might sleep better at night. Warren buffet and his toy trains/tax code does not count.
HEY!!!! Watch that slander, buddy.
He does NOT have a Ph.D. he has a batchelor's degree in physics (which just about qualifies you to be a technician). His post-grad work was all in law.
....And if you are going to try to slander physicists, be sure to distinguish between theorists and experimentalists..... you can badmouth theorists all you want. (Ph.D. experimental physicists are who folks hire when the going gets tough and the engineers can't get the job done....)
(so there!)
I stand corrected and will improve my process. That is what engineers do. But I am pretty sure the dude who has a physics degree and is also running the IRS has enough "physics" type acolades from prestidious instutions to be a LLM in Physics.
(graciously) thank you sir for your reconsideration.
accolades aren't degrees, agreed.
the degrees don't matter if you work for NIST and are a physicist. Accolades are more important. Something about jet fuel and steel. History will not be kind. Neither will the scientific method.
touche'
(alas, academia - not just NIST - has become a paper & award chasing monstrosity....and the science be damned.)
I got the 43rd post in this thread and I want the IRS to know that your grand puba masonic physics professor will not help you or your family,
* that said, we aint going to hurt you, but us (normal people) aint going to help you any more either 'till you change your ways.
How about we defund and disband the IRS. They are a rogue agency in a rogue government.
Critical emails lost. Sensitive information for 100000 clients leaked to online thieves. In a private corporation, the head of IT (at least) would be fired. And the head of the company might even be forced out. But the IRS is a government monopoly, so no one will even get a mild scolding for these failures.
"...which we are just waiting to hear blamed on Russia,"
Nahhh... Putin's on the back burner. China's on deck. YOU GO...!!!
An emergency funding bill to secure the IRS from cyber threats needs to be rammed thru post haste! $1Billion should cover it...to startt with.
Government Admits 100,000 taxpayers data stolen.... by the IRS.
100K attempts were successful and how much data did each attempt that was successful achieve?
Not a "taxpayer" as defined in the IRC.
The IRS is probably selling all the info to the highest bidder anyway, and Israel gets it all automatically via the raw data NSA tap.
ZWO subjects have no right to privacy.
"Tax returns include a host of personal information that can help someone to steal an identity, including Social Security numbers and birthdates of dependents and spouses. However, the IRS said the thieves appeared to already have a lot of personal information about the victims"
TurboTax and H&R Block sites hacked first?
http://losthorizons.com/Newsletter.htm
These people.