Monday, July 8, 2013

Whoops. IRS accidentally uploads tens of thousands of private social security numbers in public database

PublicResource.org, an organization that specializes in publishing government archive, had to make an embarrassing call to the IRS this week. Apparently the IRS IT department does not have a filter installed to monitor for errant data uploads which allowed a regularly-refreshed IRS database...
Whoops. IRS accidentally uploads tens of thousands of private social security numbers in public database

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