The security breach at Obama's IRS is 7 times worse than they originally said

When you devote all your resources to persecuting enemies of the state you don't have anything left over to protect your subjects' personal information.

Lois Lerner's IRS compatriots are not only incompetent, like her, they're liars too.

Remember when they said "only" 100,000 tax returns were compromised?

Feh. Try 700,000, at least until they inevitably "revise" the totals upward again.

WHEN THE IRS first reported a hack that exposed taxpayer accounts. vulnerable information, it pegged the number of affected people at a little over 100,000. Today, in its second upward revision, the number of affected people now stands at over 700,000.

Oops.

As WIRED originally reported last spring, the hack gave attackers access to entire tax returns, which means people's social security numbers, address, and incomes were all compromised. The hackers used personal information already in hand to get unauthorized access through an IRS application called "Get Transcript."

Don't worry though. If you're one of the 700,000, Obama's gonna send you a letter, some time after February 29th, which'll tell you you're screwed, but don't panic, because he'll front you Equifax identify theft protection for a whole year!

And, bad guys have never waited a year before exploiting personal information for profit, right?

Once your info is out there, it's out there forever. The Internet never forgets. And if you're one of the unlucky 700,000 everything about your financial life was laid bare by a bureaucracy that's more worried about its own survival than it is about your ability to sleep at night.

They. Don't. Care.

And you can't make them care.

I assure you, no one at the IRS will be fired over this. No one at the IRS will even be reprimanded over this. The culpabable parties have probably already been promoted. That's how it worked at the VA, and their malfeasance affected far more people.

It's the Chicago way.

Hey, do you know who's in charge of keeping all your health care records secure?

The IRS. The same guys who didn't secure 700,000 tax returns.

I betcha can't wait until they screw that up too!

Posted at 22:07 by Chris Wysocki   [/tech]   Comments | Perm Link |
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