It's Very, Very Easy For Hackers To Steal Your Irs Account

Adam Clark Estes, Gizmodo
Mon, 03/30/2015 - 1:20pm

The only thing that sucks worse than doing taxes is a hacker stealing your identity, doing your taxes for you, and then depositing your return in a random bank account, where it can later be transferred to Nigeria. Sound impossible? It's not, according to the story of an unlucky man named Michael Kasper.Read more...

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