Re: IRS Says Thieves Stole Tax Info from 100, 000 Taxpayers

[Bruce Ediger <bediger () stratigery com>]

On Tue, 26 May 2015, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> I guess we should read between the lines.... "more than 100,000" is
> likely 1 M or 10 M or so....
>
> http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/irs-says-thieves-stole-tax-info-100-000-taxpayers-n364926

So, how much of this non-credit card breached data gets hoovered up by the
"shadow credit reports" people?  That is, all of those "shady data brokers"
that essentially replicate what Transunion, et al, do, but with a more
extensive dossier on each identity, and no oversite, no transparency and no
chance of getting errors corrected?  We know such things exist, and that large
coporations use them.

I guess we won't know for sure until someone in the shady data broker industry
comes clean, and leaks a copy of the entire database to Brian Krebs.
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