Identity thieves obtain 100,000 electronic filing PINs from IRS system

PC World
Feb 10, 2016, 6:20 am170 pts
The Internal Revenue Service was the target of an attack that used stolen social security numbers and other taxpayer data to obtain PINs that can be used to file tax returns electronically. The attack occurred in January and targeted an IRS Web application that taxpayers use to obtain their so-called Electronic…

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