The US Tax Service (IRS) again accidentally published 112,000 entries with taxpayers data in November. The guilt for the incident reportedly fell on an external contractor working on behalf of IRS and engaged in the database.
as reports Bloomberg Tax, the incident is associated with forms 990-T, which contains private information used by organizations exempted from taxes and stretches since the summer. Some of these forms were available in the search system for organizations exempted from taxes (TEOS) and everyone could download them. Then all files were quickly deleted and promised to replace others.
The replacement began in November, but something went wrong – instead of a new set of files that did not contain important data, old files with confidential information inside were in the database. And let IRS transferred all the necessary data to the contractor on November 23, the old files were not deleted from the system, as the researcher from a third -party company indicated.
Now the US Tax Service is associated with everyone who could suffer from the incident and is preparing for the proceedings with the Congress, since more than 100,000 taxpayers have flowed into the network.