All posts tagged "IRS"
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4.8KData SecurityNetwork access to Pakistan’s top fed agency FBR sold on Russian forum
FBR, Pakistan’s IRS, has acknowledged the data breach and called it out as cyber-terrorism on Pakistan’s independence day. The Federal Board of...
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200Cyber CrimeNew Ransomware Email Scam Using FBI and IRS as Bait
Email scams have become so common nowadays that every other day there’s a new one. The only difference is the way scammers...
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182NewsHackers Pull Another Attack at IRS, Stopped Before Anything Was Taken
Last year, IRS was hacked twice where personal information of thousands of taxpayers was stolen. Now, according to a statement issued Tuesday...
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167Data SecurityIRS website attack nets e-filing credentials for 101,000 taxpayers
Breach comes a year after a previous hack compromised 300,000 people. The US Internal Revenue Service was the target of a malware attack...
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306Cyber CrimeUniversity of Michigan Employees Trapped by Google Phishing Email
Around 150 University of Michigan employees lost sensitive information thanks to scammed emails, informs the university’s Division of Public Safety and Security....
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298NewsSecurity Breach Rattles IRS, 334,000 Tax Payers Data Stolen
A security breach of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that was previously reported during May in which hackers stole tax information of...
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293HackedHow Government Secretly Reads Your Emails With This Insane Law
Today, the common public is aware, more than ever, regarding rights and privacy. Recent revelations made by whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and...
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251Cyber CrimeUS Citizens Targeted with Ransomware via Fake IRS Tax Return Emails
Tax Return-themed Emails make Users in America the Target of Ransomware – Attackers sending genuine-looking Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax refund messages. Today,...
