Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
We have previously warned consumers about IRS phone scams that defraud consumers.
Basically, the fraudsters call unsuspecting victims over the telephone impersonating an IRS official, and intimidate the recipient of the call to believe that they have an outstanding tax liability and telling them that if they don’t pay up, they will be arrested and…
On March 1, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service alerted the business community of an e-mail phishing scheme designed to convince employees to provide company-wide W-2 tax forms containing social security numbers and other personally identifiable information [view related post]. While the scam has taken different forms, the most prevalent approach is a purported internal…
The Internal Revenue Service recently requested a federal judge in the D.C. Circuit to dismiss a putative class action suit by taxpayers against the IRS for a data breach earlier this year that affected over 330,000 taxpayers. The IRS alleges that the court doesn’t have jurisdiction over the claims as the claims are preempted by…
