For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state's revenue department in 201...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/who-stole-3-6m-tax-records-from-south-carolina/
Most regular readers here are familiar with CEO fraud -- e-mail scams in which the attacker spoofs the boss and tricks an employee at the organization into wiring funds to the fraudster. Loyal re...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/irs-scam-blends-ceo-fraud-w-2-phishing/
Identity thieves stole tax and salary data from payroll giant ADP by registering accounts in the names of employees at more than a dozen customer firms, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. ADP says the ...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/05/fraudsters-steal-tax-salary-data-from-adp/
Authorities across the United States this week arrested dozens of gang members who stand accused of making millions of dollars stealing consumer identities in order to file fraudulent tax refund ...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/street-gangs-tax-fraud-and-drop-hoes/
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disclosed today that identity thieves abused a feature on the agency's Web site to pull sensitive data on more than 330,000 potential victims as part of a schem...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/irs-330k-taxpayers-hit-by-get-transcript-scam/
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity ran an interview with Julie Magee, Alabama’s chief tax administrator, to examine what the states are doing in tandem with the IRS and others to make it harder for ID ...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/firms-could-be-forced-to-disgorge-profits-from-tax-refund-fraud/
If you’ve been paying attention in recent years, you might have noticed that just about everyone is losing your personal data. Even if you haven’t noticed (or maybe you just haven’t actuall...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-embrace-the-security-freeze/
With the 2014 tax filing season squarely in the rearview mirror, state tax authorities are struggling to incorporate new approaches to identifying and stopping fraudulent tax refund requests, a $...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/states-seek-better-mousetrap-to-stop-tax-refund-fraud/
When identity thieves filed a phony $7,7700 tax refund request in the name of Joe Garrett, Alabama’s deputy tax commissioner, they didn’t get all of the money they requested. A portion of the...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/phony-tax-refunds-a-cash-cow-for-everyone/
In March 2015, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that identity thieves engaged in filing fraudulent tax refund requests with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) were using the IRS's own Web site to p...