Ooops! Confidential information on 120,000 taxpayers exposed
The information on 120,000 taxpayers was accidentally published on the IRS website. However, the IRS became aware of this mistake and removed the information. The information was based on data from FORM 990-T. This is a form utilized by organizations that are tax exempt. Some of the information included names and contact information.
From Fox Business:
“The IRS took immediate steps to address this issue,” the agency said in a statement provided to FOX Business. “The files have been removed from IRS.gov and will be replaced with updated files in the near future. In addition, the IRS also will be working with groups that routinely use the files to remove the erroneous files and replace them with the correct versions as they become available.”
The agency said that it would contact all affected individuals.
Information included in Form 990-T — like all individual taxpayer data — is intended to be confidential in most instances. But charities with unrelated business income are supposed to file Form 990-T, which is supposed to be made public.
The IRS discovered the mistake in recent weeks and took “immediate steps to address this issue,” according to a letter sent to Congress by Anna Cothfield Roth, the acting assistant secretary for management at the Treasury Department.
Under federal law, the IRS must report the disclosure of private information to lawmakers within seven days of discovering that “a major incident has occurred.” The IRS determined that the data exposure fit that criteria one week ago, on Aug. 26.
“The IRS is continuing to review this situation,” Cothfield Roth wrote in the letter. “The Treasury Department has instructed the IRS to conduct a prompt review of its practices to ensure necessary protections are in place to prevent unauthorized data disclosures.”
Fox Business has more information here.
Right… “accidentally”…
Name edited to protect PII.
AW1
“The Treasury Department has instructed the IRS to conduct a prompt review of its practices”
Investigate itself, awesome! 😡
Treasury FedReserve Secretary Janet Powell are mad with your lack of faith in their deductive prowess!
They’ll find the wrongdoer as soon as they tackle supply-side inflationary forces by spanning the infinite abyss with zeros conjured by black magic.
She may not be confused about her gender, but everyone else might be.
But will anybody get fired? Of course not!
No, but with 87K new Revenoor Agents keeping watch, they’ll be less chance of this kinda thing happening again.
You left out the sarcasm tag.
No problem, next year the 330 Million (give or take) American Tax Payers will send in their Redacted Tax Forms…Works both ways if we Lerner from our Past!
ROFLOL! “Lerner from our past”.
I see what you did there.
POWELL! Right in the kisser! (that is if you dare get close enough to that particular kisser shudder)
Good job, IRSidiots. You just proved to ANOTHER 120,000 individuals and families you cannot be trusted.
And who’ll get fired for incompetence? Not-a-soul.
End public sector unions YESTERDAY!
Even FDR thought them a bad idea.
And that’s saying something!
I suspect the information on the Form 990-T are all conservatives. The IRS has always been weaponized, even since Lois Lerner. This is just another phase.
You can bet your bottom devalued dollar that information on Black Lives Matter was not in the “inadvertent leak”.
Beat me to it. No question that leftist orgs were not affected by the leak
Remember how Rush Limbaugh himself got audited by the IRS during the Clinton years? Pepperidge farm remembers…
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Every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” – George Orwell, 1984
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