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Internal Revenue Service records, including taxpayer information, are vulnerable to tampering or disclosure because it has not fixed dozens of information security weaknesses, according to a government report released Tuesday.
The problems, the congressional Government Accountability Office said, included giving too many people access to sensitive material, failure to encrypt all sensitive data and weak physical security controls.
“Until these weaknesses are corrected, the agency remains particularly vulnerable to insider threats,” including unauthorized access to taxpayer information; disclosure, modification or destruction of that information; and disruption of operations and services, the GAO said.
The Associated Press
