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Monday, July 8, 2013

IRS Accidentally Publishes ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Social Security Numbers Online

Another day, another slipup by the Internal Revenue Service. 

The incident involves the unwitting exposure of "tens of thousands" of Social Security numbers, according to a recent audit by the independent transparency and public-domain group Public.Resource.org. The identifying numbers were on the Internet for less than 24 hours after being discovered, but the damage was done.

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