{"id":26705,"date":"2015-08-17T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2015\/08\/17\/500000-taxpayers-affected-in-irs-get-transcript-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:23:55","slug":"500000-taxpayers-affected-in-irs-get-transcript-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2015\/08\/17\/500000-taxpayers-affected-in-irs-get-transcript-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"500,000 taxpayers affected in IRS &#8216;Get Transcript&#8217; breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A full review of a breach of the Internal Revenue Service&#8217;s Get Transcript app earlier this year showed that intruders accessed three times as many records as first thought and could have personal information on five times as many taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in May, the IRS reported that hackers had gamed the agency&#8217;s multifactor authentication system to gain access to more than 114,000 taxpayer records, namely past tax returns stored in the online Get Transcript app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Previous: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/story\/government\/cybersecurity\/2015\/05\/27\/irs-hack-100000-taxpayers\/28009203\/\">IRS hack exposes info on 100,000 taxpayers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deeper dive showed more than 330,000 taxpayer accounts had likely been accessed (an additional 220,000 from the initial report).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IRS also said an additional 170,000 unsuccessful attempts were made. 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