>I'm curious why you picked tax filings as an example of information that would be catastrophic to leak. I'm assuming that the original poster is from U.S. One

>I'm curious why you picked tax filings as an example of information that would be catastrophic to leak. I'm assuming that the original poster is from U.S. One reason why tax filling are considered sensitive is that they include the individual(s) social security number (SSN). This number is meant to be private and, since it's often used as an identifier, it's frequently used for identity theft. See the wikipedia article below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Identity_theft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Identity...