I would guess this is happening largely because Intuit started offering free state filing to a greater subset of users. This has been an ongoing problem at the

I would guess this is happening largely because Intuit started offering free state filing to a greater subset of users. This has been an ongoing problem at the federal level, but just started this year with the various states. Strong correlation between fraudulent returns filed and it costing $0 for a fraudster to take a shot.