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Another Greenshades client reports tax filing problems

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Dissent

Add Lower Platte North Natural Resource District to the list of Greenshades clients whose employees are have been alerted to attempted identity theft involving tax refund fraud. According to Wahoo Newspaper, 15 of 18 NRD employees had been told by the IRS that an attempt to file their taxes had been made from a suspicious source.

Although the news report says that Greenshades had a breach last year, Greenshades denied having any breach of their system, and claims that the problem is clients who use easily obtainable login credentials for their employees (such as DOB and SSN).

 

 


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