Monday, November 25, 2013

IRS CYBERSECURITY PROTECTIONS QUESTIONED

From CNBC.  Tax returns at the IRS are not safe and can reveal private information to hackers.  But it also raises questions about security at state sites and notes that South Carolina's Department of Revenue also revealed private information on taxpayers.  And now it will be responsible for Obamacare financial data that is supposed to be private.

A new report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that although the IRS claimed it had implemented 19 fixes to secure the system recommended by the auditor in previous years, at least eight (or 42 percent) of them "had not been fully implemented," and should not have been checked off as completed.

he auditors said the IRS never tracked its progress on the repairs, and in many cases, it closed cases without submitting documentation to prove the fix was complete. The auditors blamed it on "weakened management controls."

And a hacker says no security features were built into the Obamacare web site.  So there are no security features to fix!  And the government is not required to tell you there was a security breach so a person would not know they had a potential identity theft problem to watch for!

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