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IRS Data Leak Hits Home: Actions for Taxpayers in the Wake of the Littlejohn IRS Data Breach

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun the process of informing over 70,000 taxpayers that their confidential tax information was leaked in a widespread breach by a former IRS contractor. Those impacted should take...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Action Steps Following the Largest-Ever IRS Data Breach

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On January 29, 2024, Charles E. Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison for committing one of the largest heists in the history of the federal government. Littlejohn did not steal gold or cash, but rather,...more

Snell & Wilmer

A Time to Remember that Employer-Provider Data Breach Benefits are not Taxable

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Hardly a week goes by without another announcement of a high-profile data security breach. The list of data breaches impacting high-profile employers and their employees just in 2017 is long...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

IRS Expands Tax Treatment of Identity Protection Services To Address “Inevitable” Nature of Data Breaches

The IRS has expanded upon its prior position and announced that employers are permitted to provide identity protection services to their employees before a data breach occurs and without treating such services as income. IRS...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: Belated Holiday Gift - The IRS Doubles Down on Tax Free Identity Protection Services (1/16)

Following several high-profile breaches of business and government databases affecting the personal information of millions of Americans (including the IRS’s "Get Transcript" app) many businesses, governmental agencies and...more

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