“Long story short: You should register your IRS.gov account, because it’s frightfully easy for hackers to do it for you. The craziest thing about this saga is just how easy it apparently was to hack into the IRS system. It’s not even hacking really, since the system is protected by so-called knowledge-based authentication (KBA). The fraudsters who broke into Kasper’s account did so by guessing some basic information about his life—information that was readily available elsewhere on the web. A security researcher can do the same thing in a matter of minutes.”
http://gizmodo.com/its-very-very-easy-for-hackers-to-steal-your-irs-accou-1694572344
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