Another 390,000 taxpayer accounts have been identified as potentially accessed by thieves that hacked into the IRS’s “Get Transcript†online application, the IRS said Friday, bringing the total number of accounts affected to approximately 724,000.
The breach was discovered last May, when the IRS initially identified possible unauthorized access of about 114,000 taxpayer accounts. Then, last August, the IRS revised that figure to 334,000. The application on the IRS website, launched in January 2014, was intended to allow taxpayers to more easily obtain records of their prior tax filings. It has remained suspended since the data breach was first discovered.
– See more at: http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2016/feb/irs-get-transcript-data-breach-worse-201613967.html#sthash.3T7hcm9T.dpuf
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