Hackers steal personal data from US tax agency IRS


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 27 May 2015

TAXMAN HACKED: A man at an Internal Revenue Service office building in New York. The IRS said the theft involved its online

WASHINGTON: Hackers stole information on 100,000 taxpayers from the online computers of the US Internal Revenue Service, the federal tax agency said. 

The IRS said the unidentified cyber thieves used information on the specific taxpayers from sources outside the agency to access the accounts, which included crucial identifying information such as birth dates, addresses and social security numbers. 

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