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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

April 16, 2024 0 Comments aleksandr ermakov, associated press, Breadcrumbs, Data Breaches, embargo, home depot breach, jeffrey collins, mark keel, mazafaka, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nikki haley, rescator, shtazi, target breach, tax refund fraud, tax return fraud, the post and courier, u.s. internal revenue service, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:26:55 +0000

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

February 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, blake hall, Equifax, id.me, tax refund fraud, u.s. internal revenue service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:15:06 +0000

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device.