Tuesday, May 26, 2015

IRS Allows Hackers To Loot Tax Info Of 100,000 Americans

by JASmius



It's almost like, having stolen our money for decades in general, and having abused our personal information over the past six and a half years for tyrannically partisan purposes, the Obama Internal Revenue Police have opted to begin selling franchises of and for their stock-in-trade:

Sophisticated criminals used an online service run by the IRS to access personal tax information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, part of an elaborate scheme to steal identities and claim fraudulent tax refunds, the IRS said Tuesday.

The thieves accessed a system called “Get Transcript,” where taxpayers can get tax returns and other filings from previous years. In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address, the IRS said.

“We’re confident that these are not amateurs,” said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. “These actually are organized crime syndicates that not only we but everybody in the financial industry are dealing with.”

Birds of a feather, Mr. Department Store Mannequin?  I have no doubt of your confidence that they're not amateurs, because you probably had a hand in training them, as all large enterprises do their franchisees.

The miracle is that only a hundred thousand Americans got identity-thefted.  Although that was probably just a trial run; they'll get the rest of our personal information in the very near future.

Exit question: How pathetic is it that nearly a third of Americans are still at least "somewhat confident" that their personal information is safe and secure with the Obama Regime?

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