IRS Says Illegal Account Access Worse Than Originally Thought: 220,000 More Taxpayers Affected
Earlier this year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that identity thieves illegally accessed tax information tied to approximately 114,000 taxpayers with unsuccessful attempts made on about 111,000 additional taxpayer accounts. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen delivered the news at a hastily arranged press conference on May 26, 2015, to alert taxpayers to the breach. At…