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
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IRS says taxpayers can’t sue it for data breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
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…