We're From The Government And We're Here To Help People Steal Your Identity
The headline on the Brian Fung article in National Journal:
The IRS Mistakenly Exposed Thousands of Social Security Numbers
An excerpt from the piece:
Another day, another slipup by the Internal Revenue Service.The incident involves the unwitting exposure of "tens of thousands" of Social Security numbers, according to a recent audit by the independent transparency and public-domain group Public.Resource.org. The identifying numbers were on the Internet for less than 24 hours after being discovered, but the damage was done.
" Those made by nonprofit political groups known as 527s."
Hmm I wonder which political groups accidentally had their members numbers leaked.
Joe J at July 9, 2013 3:13 PM
At least we can trust them with our health records...
MarkD at July 9, 2013 3:56 PM
And what really sucks is they have no requirement to compensate you for the fuck-up. If a bank or other private institution does it they usually give you at least 1-2 years of credit report monitoring, as cheap as it is.
Jim P. at July 9, 2013 8:27 PM
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