NextGov: The IRS failed to add more than 11,000 compromised Social Security numbers to a list it uses to help protect taxpayers from identity theft, according to an audit this month from the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog.
Fraudsters used 79 of those Social Security numbers to file phony tax returns in an effort to receive ill-gotten refunds during the 2016 and 2017 tax years, Treasury’s inspector general found.
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