(Bloomberg) — The IRS's initiative to expand online services for taxpayers makes it more likely the U.S. tax agency will be hit by "hackers and other fraudsters," the agency's inspector general said Tuesday.
One of the Internal Revenue Service's early forays into interactive service was halted last month after the agency said identity thieves had accessed past tax returns of 104,000.
The IRS provided updated numbers Tuesday, showing that about 13,000 fake tax returns have been filed using that information, with an estimated loss of $39 million to the government.
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