IRS Indifferent to Hacking Incident

Canada Free Press ^ | 05/29/15 | Arnold Ahlert

[Sean_Anthony]

An agency beset by corruption, incompetence and arrogance: An arrogant leader overseeing an agency with a vast level of power over millions of vulnerable taxpaying Americans is a toxic mix

Apparently the arrogance of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen knows no bounds. Facing questions about the ease by which hackers accessed the tax returns of more than 100,000 Americans from February to mid-May, he remained unapologetic. “These are actually organized crime syndicates that not only we but everybody in the financial industry are dealing with,” he declared—before boasting about the agency’s ability to stop approximately half the attacks.

Koskinen also offered up an exercise in semantics. “This is not a hack or data breach. These are impostors pretending to be someone,” he said according to the Wall Street Journal. Technically the Commissioner is correct in that the IRS systems themselves weren’t compromised. But one suspects the efforts, now attributed to Russian hackers engaged in a sophisticated scheme to claim fraudulent tax refunds, will be scant comfort to American taxpayers waiting for those refunds. Furthermore, Americans might not have known about the source of the attack at all: two officials contacting Breitbart News “spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation,” the website reported.

[unixfox]

These are impostors pretending to be someone

Just like your pResident? And all of the employees at the friggin corrupt IRS?

Those imposters? You POS!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

IRS Indifferent to Hacking Incident

That's because it's not their money, it's ours. If Koskinen got hacked, I'd be indifferent. Actually, I'd be happy.

[Diogenesis]

Sounds like the IRS did it to itself as a false flag.

[headstamp 2]

If the IRS was a private entity, they’d be getting their asses sued off over it.

[ladyjane]

They probably did it to themselves to cover up for their own employees who are stealing the data.

We have a friend who filed for a refund (a large one) and was told he had already filed and received his check. He got 5 different stories from 5 different IRS people. He figures the employees look for large refunds and tip off their accomplices. He still doesn’t have his refund.

[BitWielder1]

I think IRS are outsourcing some of their shenanigans to foreign hackers.

[BuffaloJack]

Less than a month ago, I was filing the 990EZ tax form for non-profits (religious and political organizations). I was doing the 990EZ because the religious organization met the qualifications for low income. I've done this for about 5 years now, but this time when I went to log in, I was greeted by an announcement that I'd have to register again, because their database had been the target of hacking and all the password and tax ID information had been compromised.

A few days later, it occurred to me, “What kind of hacker goes after churches, synagogues and temples?” But a moment later I realized that this also covers political organizations like the Tea Party and others. Now it makes sense. They were looking for stuff on conservatives.

[bravo whiskey]

Pot, kettle. The irs IS an organized crime syndicate.

[Mmmike]

Nobody owes income tax payments, strictly speaking. The money is protection money paid to an evil enemy.

[Dante3]

bttt

[ladyjane]

You are so right!