Identity theft protection

Wojeski & Co. has reached a $60,000 settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James after it was hit by two data breaches and ransomware attacks.

The Internal Revenue Service and its partners in the public and private sectors are planning to highlight the importance of cybersecurity next week.

The Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting e-filed tax returns that contain dependents who have already been claimed on another taxpayer's return.

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The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning to tax professionals to be on guard against the identity thieves who are targeting them and their clients.

The amount of time that identity theft victims have to wait for tax refunds has increased as the Internal Revenue Service has shifted priorities, with some waiting nearly two years.

The Internal Revenue Service is making some changes in the way it sends tax transcripts for clients to tax professionals to beef up security.

The service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals.

The IRS offers advice on how practitioners can know when their client information is at risk.

The service and its Security Summit partners revived their summertime campaign to protect confidential client information against identity theft.

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning taxpayers to beware of a new scam in which fraudsters are sending out cardboard envelopes from a delivery service asking for personal info.

The business solutions suite provider released its new privacy-focused Ulaa, which is said to shield user data even from the company itself.

People can lose thousands upon thousands of dollars if their payment card number is stolen, but for the one who used it, the cost was around seven bucks.

The Internal Revenue Service has deployed more filters to catch a growing number of tax returns filed by identity thieves, but fraudsters are continuing to collect millions of dollars despite those efforts.

JP Morgan, UBS and TradeStation Securities all settled with the commission over accusations their identity theft protection controls were inadequate.

The service and its partners are cautioning tax pros to beware of the latest schemes to steal taxpayer information through phishing emails.

Clients should know about Identity Protection Personal Information Numbers to safeguard against data theft.

The Internal Revenue Service is strengthening the identity verification and sign-in process for its online self-help tools after a number of high-profile data breaches.

The service is alerting practitioners about some of the warning signals of taxpayer identity theft.

Private collection agencies that have contracted with the Internal Revenue Service to collect overdue tax debts have collected nearly $500 million since 2017, according to a new report, but that’s just a fraction of the over $30 billion owed.