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If The IRS Actually Cares About Not Getting Hacked, It Has A Funny Way Of Showing It
Hackers stole sensitive records from over 700,000 people by breaching the Internal Revenue Service in 2015. You’d think that kind of horrific security breach would prompt some soul-searching, but [insert joke about soulless taxman here] nope. The IRS continues to use an impressively bad PIN authentication process to protect people from fraud.
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IRS Admits To Using The Same Spy Tech As The FBI To Track 37 Phones
Last month, it was alleged that the Internal Revenue Service had been using Stingray devices to track people by scraping their phone metadata. Now, it’s admitted as much — and gone so far as to say that it wants another of the units, too.
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That Massive IRS Hack Was Way More Massive Than We Thought
Remember that awful news of Russian hackers stealing the personal information of 100,000 American taxpayers? Turns out the Internal Revenue Service lowballed the number. The agency now says that over 600,000 people were targeted with 300,000 unlucky persons losing their data privacy completely.
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IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Custom Support
The IRS isn’t exactly known for playing fast and loose with deadlines — your deadlines, that is. But its apparently a lot more willing to take their chances when it comes to its own. In this case, that means paying millions of dollars to keep running Windows XP long after the deadline has come and…