WASHINGTON: A data breach affecting some 100,000 US tax filers appears to have originated in Russia, CNN reported, citing unnamed sources.
The Internal Revenue Service disclosed the breach on May 26, saying hackers accessed data on a third-party site with tax records, without compromising the tax agency itself.
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