Natasha Lindstrom reports:
They didn’t mean to do it.
Not the scholarship funds, alumni associations or garden clubs.
Not the nonprofit hospitals, union groups or corporate foundation arms.
Yet more than 130,000 tax-exempt organizations unwittingly leaked hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers belonging to unsuspecting board members, donors, employees and college students.
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More than 630,000 Social Security numbers — including tens of thousands of numbers of Pennsylvanians — have become public record inadvertently on tax-exempt Form 990 filings with the Internal Revenue Service since 2001, according to independent audits and documents the Trib obtained.
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