IRS contractor has leaked more than 400,000 taxpayer information

• The IRS said that more than 405,000 taxpayers had stolen their information and passed on to the media. The incumbent commissioner said 89% of those affected were branches.
• This is a significant increase compared to the 70,000 taxpayers that the service originally approved.
• The perpetrator Charles Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024.

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that more than 405,000 taxpayers, including President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, had stolen their information from a now implied contractor who leaked the returns to the media. This is a significant increase compared to the 70,000 taxpayers that the service originally approved.

“Admission of the IRS confirms the suspicion of the committee and the recent reports that show that the scope of the leak was much wider than what the IRS of the bidges administration originally caused the” massive scandal. ”

In a letter to the chairman of the committee, Jim Jordan, R-OHIO, said the reigning IRS commissioner Douglas O'Donnell, 89% of those affected are offices. He added that they were all informed in writing and received a committed email address for follow-up requests.

In January 2024, Charles Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison because he had stolen the tax information from officials, including President Trump and Musk, and had released them in news agencies, including the New York Times and Pro Publica.

According to the Ministry of Justice, Littlejohn accessed the tax returns in 2019 and 2020. He searched for a database with broad parameters to hide its true intentions. Littlejohn then uploaded the tax returns to a private website to avoid systems to prevent large downloads and uploading of IRS devices. He saved the tax returns to several personal storage devices, including an iPod, and sent them to the news organizations.

More than 50 articles were published using the stolen information.