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Its use of the singular is technically wrong. This is a downstream effect of the thousands of data breaches that have occurred in the past few years. Anything t
by Agathos 12y ago
Its use of the singular is technically wrong. This is a downstream effect of the thousands of data breaches that have occurred in the past few years. Anything that provides a name and social security number could do it.
- eli 12y agoActually I'm pretty sure it's referring correctly to a singular probe. And unless you know something I don't, it's entirely plausible it's the result of a single data breach (e.g. the recent one at Anthem).
- Steuard 12y agoThe article indicated that the fraudulent returns seemed to be based on last year's returns for the individuals in question, so it sounds like a lot more than name and SSN were involved here.