If somebody promises to get your economic impact payment fast, back away: it’s just one flavor of COVID-19 scam the tax agency is seeing.
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US cybersecurity plan won’t stop the government getting hacked – but it’s a start
A new strategy unveiled by the White House this week should help the US to improve its flawed cyberdefenses, but even the US CIO admits that there can never be perfect security.
Tax fraudster who hacked accounting firms pleads guilty in US court
A Bulgarian hacker has pleaded guilty to involvement in a conspiracy to use data stolen from several accounting firms for tax fraud. Should the IRS do more to protect taxpayers? 
Hackers compromise 100,000 IRS tax accounts with pre-stolen data
The Internal Revenue Service has confirmed that attackers accessed 100,000 taxpayers’ accounts using personal data stolen elsewhere.