Michael Cooney reports:
In this the heavy tax season where billions of dollars and tons of personal information is relayed to and from the government, it’s more disconcerting to hear that the Internal Revenue Service is still struggling to keep private information secure.
A report out today from watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office says about 69% of the tax agency’s previously noted security flaws remain unfixed and continue to jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IRS’s systems. The problems put the IRS at increased risk of unauthorized disclosure, modification, or destruction of financial and taxpayer information, the GAO concluded.
Read more on Network World.
The GAO has given the IRS a failing or near failing grade on security for years. Perhaps they can apply the millions of dollars they collect in taxes from fraudulently used SSNs to fix this problem (Taxes collected would be from Illegals, criminals, those who wish to avoid child support or have a bad financial/criminal history follow them, or are just messing (I’ll be police) with the mind of an ex)