Trust The IRS? IRS Exposes Confidential Info of 120k Americans

[easyt65]

Winning Hearts and Minds, building trust...

IRS admits it exposed confidential information of 120,000 taxpayers online

The IRS said Friday that it had inadvertently exposed the confidential information of about 120,000 taxpayers on its website before it identified the mistake.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[konradv]

Winning Hearts and Minds, building trust...

IRS admits it exposed confidential information of 120,000 taxpayers online

The IRS said Friday that it had inadvertently exposed the confidential information of about 120,000 taxpayers on its website before it identified the mistake.

www.foxbusiness.com

A government entity made a mistake and admitted it. Refreshing!

 

[easyt65]

A government entity made a mistake and admitted it. Refreshing!

Like Lerner did...

 

[JoeB131]

Just not seeing a problem. I got an email from my phone company today telling me they just had a data breach. Last year, a former employer informed me someone hacked their HR database.

 

[easyt65]

 

[easyt65]

Just not seeing a problem. I got an email from my phone company today telling me they just had a data breach. Last year, a former employer informed me someone hacked their HR database.

So they now have your name, phone #, address, SS#, tax ID #, all income sources and amounts, dependent SS#, & info, etc... like what hackers can get from the IRS?

 

[JoeB131]

So they now have your name, phone #, address, SS#, tax ID #, all income sources and amounts, dependent SS#, & info, etc... like what hackers can get from the IRS?

Um, yeah. Or they can get from Home Depot, or your employer, or Samsung, or anyone else who can be easily hacked.

We live in an information age, dummy.