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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 03, 2017, 09:43:04 pm
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IRS awards Equifax $7.25 million contract to prevent fraud
By Ali Breland - 10/03/17 04:57 PM EDT
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has agreed to give Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayers' identities and help combat fraud, according to a recently issued contract.
The IRS is hiring the embattled credit reporting agency to “verify taxpayer identity and to assist in ongoing identity verification and validations needs of the Service,” according to its filing on Federal Business Opportunities, a website that lists federal contracts.
The IRS labels Equifax as a “sole source order,” which means that the agency believes the credit reporting company is the only business capable of providing the service.
more
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/353712-irs-gives-equifax-multimillion-dollar-contract-to-prevent-fraud
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IRS awards Equifax $7.25 million contract to prevent fraud
By Ali Breland - 10/03/17 04:57 PM EDT
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has agreed to give Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayers' identities and help combat fraud, according to a recently issued contract.
The IRS is hiring the embattled credit reporting agency to “verify taxpayer identity and to assist in ongoing identity verification and validations needs of the Service,” according to its filing on Federal Business Opportunities, a website that lists federal contracts.
The IRS labels Equifax as a “sole source order,” which means that the agency believes the credit reporting company is the only business capable of providing the service.
more
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/353712-irs-gives-equifax-multimillion-dollar-contract-to-prevent-fraud
Do we have a "jaw dropping to the floor" emoticon?
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The ultimate goal of the IRS is to track every penny. Every penny you make and every penny you spend. They already have real time access to your bank accounts at will.
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Fox, meet henhouse.
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The IRS needs to become nothing but a faded memory if we are ever again to be a free people!
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IRS awards Equifax $7.25 million contract to prevent fraud
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Do we have a "jaw dropping to the floor" emoticon?
@Sanguine .... we have this one: :wtf!:
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The headline is good for a laugh, but...
It's a $7.25 million dollar contract, or about five cents per tax return (and/or individual that EF has put at risk). This has got to be a very minor project for the IRS.
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Paying foxes to ruin the hen house.
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@Sanguine .... we have this one: :wtf!:
That works.
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Maybe they'll share IT Security secrets.
The IRS Says Identity Thieves Hacked Its Systems Again
To steal tax refunds.
By Jonathan Chew
Feb 10th, 2016 8:25 am ET
Identity thieves attempted to breach computer systems at the Internal Revenue Service to file fraudulent tax refunds.
The criminals were especially after E-file PINs, which are used by some individuals to electronically file a return, the agency said in a statement released Tuesday. Around 464,000 unique social security numbers were involved, and of that total, 101,000 SSNs were used to successfully access an E-file PIN.
The thieves used personal taxpayer data that was stolen elsewhere to help generate the PINs, the agency said. No personal data was compromised or disclosed by IRS systems, and affected taxpayers will be notified by mail of the attack. “The IRS is also protecting their accounts by marking them to protect against tax-related identity theft,” the agency added.
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http://fortune.com/2016/02/10/irs-hack-refunds/ (http://fortune.com/2016/02/10/irs-hack-refunds/)