Identity theft

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

The service is seeing a surge of scams hitting taxpayers via email and text messages touting tax refunds and quick fixes to their tax problems.

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

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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.

The vulnerability of the Social Security number isn't helping, either.

The IRS used 84 selection filters last year to ferret out identity theft on business tax returns during the pandemic.

The service is warning tax professionals to be on the lookout for signs of data theft so they can respond quickly on behalf of their clients.

In this latest installment of “The Frontier,” RKL’s chief cloud officer says there is now so much personal data online that someone could assume your identity and lock you out of it.