Hackers targeted the Internal Revenue Service, looking for E-file pins associated with Social Security numbers by using previously obtained PII and eventually obtaining more than 100,000 before the IRS blocked the attack, CIO reports. The gleaned information could be employed for fraudulent tax filings, the report states. “No personal taxpayer data was compromised or disclosed by IRS systems,” the IRS said in a statement, adding that the information employed for access to the information was “data stolen elsewhere outside the IRS.” The agency assured the concerned that it would alert “affected taxpayers via mail and will monitor their accounts to protect them from tax-related identity theft,” the report states.
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