Congressman Darin LaHood is questioning IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about what is being done to protect the sensitive information of American taxpayers from mounting cybersecurity threats.
During a Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing Thursday, LaHood said that from 2014 to 2015 alone, more than 700,000 taxpayers’ personal information was compromised because of criminal cybersecurity breaches.
The Government Accountability Office released a report in March providing 43 recommendations for the IRS to increase security. The IRS responded that it would consider the recommendations over a 60-day period.
“If the federal government requires Americans to provide sensitive and personal information, its agencies must be able to protect that data from cyber criminals,” LaHood said. “The IRS remains highly vulnerable to hackers and cyberattacks and yet the commissioner failed to sufficiently answer our committee’s questions1193-1389-6863-9776-3660-94131193-1389-6863-9776-3660-9413on why the GAO’s recommendations have not been implemented.” For the full article click here
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