Nextgov | By: Joseph Marks | August 14, 2017:
The IRS is still failing to adequately protect U.S. taxpayers’ personal information and sensitive financial data, according to an audit report announced Monday.
The Government Accountability Office is not releasing the text of the report because it contains either classified or sensitive but unclassified information, the auditor said. The title of the report cited “control deficiencies” that “limit IRS’s effectiveness in protecting sensitive financial and taxpayer data.”
While details of this report aren’t public, GAO published an unclassified report with the same title in July, which likely covered similar ground. The reports are part of a long history of information security shortfalls GAO has documented at IRS stretching back years.
The July report tallies 166 outstanding recommendations related to information security best practices and ensuring that taxpayer and financial information can’t be accessed by people who don’t need to access it.
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