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"The FBI has
opened an investigation into the recently reported incident at
the Internal Revenue Service and is working with our interagency
partners to determine the nature and scope of this matter," a
spokesman said.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday cyber criminals had
sought to gain access to personal tax information 200,000 times
from February to May, and were successful in about half of those
attempts.
The FBI spokesman said individuals alerted to the illegal access
of information should report "any suspected instances of
identify theft" to the FBI's Crime Complaint Center at the
website www.ic3.gov.
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hear
testimony about the incident from Koskinen and J. Russell
George, the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax
administration.
(Reporting by Lindsay Dunsmuir; Editing by Richard Cowan and
Bernadette Baum)
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