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IRS admits 334,000 victims of fraudulent tax refunds due to security flaws on website

By Linn Foster Freedman on August 20, 2015 Posted in Data Breach

Not only did the IRS lose a flash drive with 12,000 school workers’ Social Security numbers on it in Texas (view related post), it admitted on August 17th that its initial estimate that 110,000 taxpayers’ personal information was used to file false tax returns this year is… well…actually 334,000 data breaches and upwards of 390,000 … Continue Reading

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