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26 IRS tapes missing from City Hall
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:59:02 -0500 (EST)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16493570.htm Twenty-six IRS computer tapes containing taxpayer information are missing after they were delivered to City Hall months ago. Kansas City is one of hundreds of governmental entities that share taxpayer information back and forth with the Internal Revenue Service. City officials use the federal tax return information to enforce their collection of the 1 percent city earnings tax, which is paid by people who live or work in Kansas City. City and IRS officials on Thursday either would not or could not say exactly what information is on the tapes or the number of taxpayers whose information is on the tapes. But the information potentially could include taxpayersÂ’ names, Social Security numbers and bank account numbers, or they could contain employer information. [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 144 million compromised records in 536 incidents over 7 years.
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