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Monday, 08 July 2013
The IRS exposed 100,000 Americans to identity theft by putting their SSNs on the internet
The IRS mistakenly posted the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of Americans on a government website, the agency confirmed Monday night. One estimate put the figure as high as 100,000 names.
The numbers were posted to an IRS database for tax-exempt political groups known as 527s and first discovered by the group Public.Resource.org.
An IRS spokesman told FoxNews.com on Monday the agency was alerted about a "substantial number" of Social Security numbers posted on the site and removed web access to the information "out of an abundance of caution." The spokesman also said the IRS is now "assessing the situation and exploring available options."
Public.Resource.org. founder Carl Malamud told FoxNews.com on Monday night that roughly 100,000 Social Security numbers were exposed.
Betcha can't wait until the IRS has control of all your sensitive health insurance information! I'm sure they'll guard it with the utmost care. Barack Obama promised they would, and he never, ever breaks any of his promises, right?
I mean he promised the Employer Mandate would go into effect next year, oh, wait…
Well but he promised the Insurance Exchanges would totally root out fraud and, um, nevermind…
OK, c'mon, enough of that. He promised the Most Transparent Administration In
History and, aw geez,
there
you
go
again…!
Posted at 22:18 by Chris Wysocki
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