The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) 2015 breach, in which hackers utilized weak elements of the agency’s website to steal nearly 334,000 personal records, was easy to do based on previous breaches and sub-par IRS cybersecurity measures, Quartz reports. “Just knowing a person’s address, which you can get from one of these more traditional breaches, you can discover a lot about a person,” said the University of Michigan Kevin Fu. This easy access to information coupled with weak internal programs, some of which “have been running for 50 years,” according to John Koskine, IRS commissioner, makes it a “difficult challenge competing with organized criminals who have resources.”
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