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Best Place to Steal Personal Information? Try The IRS!

Posted in News, Privacy by Dan at 5:09 pm
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60% of surveyed IRS employees easily gave up personal and confidential information about individuals. IRS employees were found to be easily socially engineered into giving up information that could be used to commit identity theft. The study involved 102 people who, when called on an outside line, gave up their private IRS username and password to the caller which then could be used to surf unrestricted in the IRS system.

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