11K Social Security Numbers Not Added by IRS to Identity Theft Protection List

guest · Nov 21, 2018

11K Social Security Numbers Not Added by IRS to Identity Theft Protection List
79 of all unprotected SSNs involved in identity theft events
November 20, 2018
https://news.softpedia.com/news/11k...o-identity-theft-protection-list-523889.shtml

IRS’ Return Integrity and Compliance Services (RICS) [...] was able to successfully record around 730 data breaches on the organization's Incident Management Tracker Matrix, but its registration and monitoring procedures failed in the case of 89 data breaches reported to the IRS and experienced by multiple external entities.

"For 70 of these incidents, the RICS analysts did not request the external entity to provide the IRS with a list of stolen client Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN)," said TIGTA's report.
An extra 28K taxpayers identification numbers involved in breaches might not have been protected
Following the report, the IRS completed its own analysis of the TIN registration and monitoring procedures assigned to the RICS organization and it was able to find 15,143 unique TINs which were not processed appropriately.
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"Actions Were Not Always Taken to Protect Taxpayers Associated With Reported External Data Breaches" (PDF):
https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2019reports/201940010fr.pdf

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