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IRS Admits Taxpayer Account Hack Far More Serious Than Initially Reported
Another day, another lie/fib/untruth exposed in government. As WSJ reports, after initially admitting that a major security breach had gained unauthorized access to 100,000 US households tax returns, The IRS has now admitted that in fact more than 600,000 breaches (blamed on Russians) were attempted and an additional 390,000 taxpayers were potentially affected.
As The Wall Street Journal reports,
The Internal Revenue Service said identity thieves’ penetration of one of its computer databases was much more extensive than previously reported, with more than 300,000 taxpayer accounts potentially affected and more than 600,000 breaches attempted.
The IRS reported in May that cyber crooks used stolen Social Security numbers and other data acquired elsewhere to try to gain unauthorized access to prior-year tax return information for about 225,000 U.S. households. That included about 114,000 successful attempts and 111,000 unsuccessful ones.
On Monday, the agency said its review showed that an additional 390,000 taxpayers were potentially affected. That includes about 220,000 additional households “where there were instances of possible or potential access” to prior-year return data, the IRS said in a statement. It also includes about 170,000 additional instances of “suspected attempts that failed to clear the authentication processes,” it added.
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Only a few thousand of the taxpayer accounts were the subject of attempted refund fraud. But IRS officials believe hackers in many instances were gathering the information to facilitate fraud during the 2016 tax-filing season.
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Given the extensive hacks, one wonders if they found Lois Lerner's emails while they were in there?
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ISIS did it! Er, Rusia, er China, er North Korea...
Shit
They are truly an axis of evil if they want anything to do with the IRS.
Windows 95 is a BIT insecure.
pods
These are the same "folks" who want to take charge of national internet and systems security.
These are the same folks who seriously think they can ban encryption.
Hey! I got an idea! Let's make everybody safer by getting rid of cash and just having everything online!
This is what the beginning of a gvt default looks like.
Let's see who was affected. Knowing these assclowns, I bet none of the people affected are members in good standing with Team Obama.
The hackers are REAL terrorists if they made everyones liability $0 tee hee.
IRS officials believe hackers in many instances were gathering the information to facilitate fraud during the 2016 tax-filing season.
It's important to file those false tax returns early, so that when the actual serf-taxpayer files with actual data, the IRS records will be completely fucked up for that individual and year.
On careful reflection, I hope some mystery hackers file a fake return for every US taxpayer for every year, so that the entire IRS system becomes unusable...... Make it so.
Therefore more audits will be necessary to ensure your safety.
Sincerely,
IRS
I think my dog just ate my homework.
No, a hacker stole my data.
I've been emailing my returns to Lois Lerner, so...
And your healthcare records.
....and food, and healthcare. The same people who build the roads.
I'm not filing any more returns!
Direct deposit refund recipients should change their account numbers.
This helps the bank too.
FEES!
"IRS Admits Taxpayer Account Hack Far More Serious Than Initially Reported"
Look at me. I'm shocked!
No. Not that the "hack" was far more serious than initially reported.
I'm shocked that Barack Obama's IRS admitted it.
Makes you wonder why they admitted it. An axe to grind with Russia? Create a boogie man? Did the hack ever really happen? I don't know for sure, but one thing I do know for sure is that I DO NOT TRUST THEM, PERIOD! or .
See above.
But they first said, "It's only a tiny leak."
"It's contained."
"No one saw this coming."
...and so on.
Never waste a crisis.
So how many were affected?
"All of them."
Par for the government course.
pods
The Russians must be very bored.
They must already have every Top Secret server hacked if they can waste time on the IRS.
"The passion of friendship is of so loyal a nature that it will last a lifetime, if not asked to lend money" WHP.
Freedom To Fascism. Nuff said. Fuck these Pure Evil Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. Fascists.
Something tells me the entire I.R.S. system and infriastructure is completely broken and if the avg american could see the extent of it they wouldnt believe it..
Damn Russians ate my Lucky Charms this morning too. Bomb them fuckers.
Taxation without representation is a fraud. Hack away. In fact erase all the records while you're in there.
Maybe the Russians resorted to hacking because they were simply frustrated after dialing the 800 number to the IRSand placed on hold for over an hour and then disconnected--if they could even get thru since most of the time the recording states they are experiencing heavy call volume and to call back later.
here's hoping lois lerner was one of them.
I guess the IRS/.gov will have to issue every American a new, 29 digit SS number on an implantable RFID chip.
Not me, or you for that matter.
I guess the IRS/.gov will have to issue every American a new, 29 digit SS number on an implantable RFID chip.
Coming to you in the spring of 2017 in the guise of "keeping us safe".
Russia increase gold output sixfold; to move to the "golden ruble"?
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Frusnext.ru%2Fnews%2F1439755639&edit-text=
In the first five months of the year, Russia increased gold production six times and, according to many, it is not far from secured gold rubles, writes [Engdahl].''
"potentially affected" means one has to triple the amount before that phrase,
the number is then a rugh estimate for the next official finding.
so let me understand
-the government creates a social security number for me.
-I give some of my wages to the government through taxes
-then any entity can steal my social security number from the government
and ruin my financial future.
why do I feel this is a shitty deal for me as the citizen.
just another excuse to audit more people those in power deem unworthy of existence
My predicted final tally of tax returns exposed by hacking: all of them.
One of the little side benefits of using an accountant who is neither a US citizen nor resident is that they can, or perhaps must, file paper 1040's.
It ultimately may not make any difference, but if the IRS wants my tax data entered into the All-Seeing System of the Federal Dark Tower, they can do it themselves.
Time to abolish the IRS.
how about Americans just blame their own stupid fucking incompetent government and never mind blaming everyone else...there are plenty examples of American Exceptionalism like sub 80 IQ that provide the reason....
The IRS has now admitted that in fact more than 600,000 breaches (blamed on Russians) were attempted. . . .
I don't know about the rest of you guys but I for one am getting really sick and tired of this "blame the Russians (Chinese/North Koreans/Iranians)" bullshit. Especially when you consider that your main qualifications to be included in the "blame club" is not going along with the dictates of the One Bank or the USA's hegemony plans . . . . .
"They're jealous of our freedom."
Gov blames Russia, North Korea, China. or anyone else. Problem is government. Completely corrupted and incompetent. Fuck You .Gov
When you blame somebody else, you disempower yourself.
There is a saying - Sun Tzu, perhaps?
"Government is not the solution for our problem. Goverment is the problem." R. Reagan, President who repaired the messes left by the 2nd worst president.
I don't usually respond to fools but in this case I will.
Carter was not even close to the second worst president. Obama is not even close to the worst. Lincoln/Wilson are tied for worst. Carter was inept, but his vision of an America that didn't get involved with the rest of the world was closer to what the founders wanted of any modern president.
Reagan was not the best either. Whatever he may have achieved, he set up the country for the final strip mining of wealth that's going on today.
Why does a dog lick his balls? Because he can. Why do people hack .gov servers? Answer is the same
IRS manages obamacare. Bwahahahaha
It's not the Russians. They have more important things to do than to hack into broke US taxpayers tax records. Hey, maybe it's the Greeks!
Hang 'em high!
How things should work: Your Federal Agency is hacked... Heads of all departments are fired immediately. Agency is placed under new management. All rank and file employees are placed under review, things like oweing back taxes, unauthorized use of credit cards, porn sites found in your browsing history... You are fired as well...
How it does work: Pay raises across the board.
Alternate method of how it works: Pakistanis out of NY posing as IRS agents attempt to socially engineer you claiming you owe back taxes and you need to pay them immediately. Wonder if the FBI finally managed to get around to shutting down this little ring of thieves after I reported them.
I don't want to pay any taxes but if I need to have ineptly corrupt organization overseeing tax collection, it would be far safer to have them take 10% off the top of every paycheck. They can then focus on auditing companies to ensure that they are getting their cut.
Looks like the IRS needs an excuse for something...
600,000 + 390,000... so the pundits will be corrected when they say 1MM???? Sometimes its almost too easy.
I used to be careful not to owe the Govt. money. That is before I knew better. I am so glad now that I changed my ways and let myself owe them instead of them owing me.
Unless you are going to hack me and pay my bill, you will not get my money.
I do get it they can do other damage to me elsewhere with the data, but not this.
Maybe the russians can steal barry's ssn and tell us his is a Fraud, although most of us already do. Maybe tbey could hack his school records to tell us he is a foreign exchange student, although most uf us.know he already is.
For the record i tried.
Why would Lois plea da fif if the missing internal emails and external hacking was involved? Quite an extensive resume review before she plea da fif.
IRS Official Lois Lerner Pleads The Fifth, Dismissed From Scandal ...
Fiiif Chappelle Show - Fifth Amedment - YouTubeSo...
In other words about 1/10th of all taxpayers were exposed (because everyone else is a net tax recipient).
Do you believe your .gov
600k
bullshit
think again
how many?
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Your Welcome
L Leaner
this is not your fathers socialism
"Given the extensive hacks, one wonders if they found Lois Lerner's emails while they were in there?"
Russians, Chinese, and NSA are probably the ONLY ones with the complete files.
The best silly season topic ever. A trully universile topic. And yet not much talk on this from any of the pupets? Interesting? One would think outsiders would be sharp to jump all over this?