IRS Estimates 300k tax records stolen

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...And the number of affected taxpayers may continue to grow as the agency digs into logs of hundreds of thousands of connections to its Get Transcript application over the past year. Today, the agency announced that there were, in total, more than 600,000 suspicious attempts made to create user accounts on the transcript system using what appears to be stolen personal identifying information from recent credit card breaches and other corporate hacks; more than 300,000 of those attempts succeeded....

Please file returns as early as possible to head off fraud filings.