IRS failed to alert over 100,000 taxpayers that their personal information had been stolen

Last updated on: June 14, 2016 at 9:43 pm by Convention of States

IRS failed to alert over 100,000 taxpayers that their personal information had been stolen 2016-06-14T21:43:42-05:00 Convention of States

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The IRS’ computer hack was worse than previously admitted, and the tax agency failed to alert thousands of people that their information was stolen, and didn’t give credit monitoring assistance to nearly 80,000 others who were targeted, an inspector general said Wednesday.

Investigators said nearly 1 million accounts were potentially targeted, and nearly 360,000 people actually had their accounts broken into. That’s far more than the 220,000 hacks the tax agency initially acknowledged.

In thousands of instances, the IRS missed the evidence of a hack, the inspector general said, leaving those taxpayers unaware of their vulnerabilities for months.

“While the IRS acted swiftly to disable its application upon learning of the data breach, our auditors found that it did not identify all taxpayers who were potentially affected, and whose tax information was at risk of being used by unauthorized individuals,” said J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

He said the IRS did notify the taxpayers after the inspector general pointed out the botch.

The hack hit the tax agency’s Get Transcript application, which allows taxpayers to look at some of their most personal financial information they file as part of their annual returns. Hackers managed to impersonate hundreds of thousands of taxpayers, giving answers to background questions to gain access to their records.

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