Accountants and tax agents are hot targets of identity thieves intent on harvesting personal data through social engineering tricks and malicious code. ATO believes a mix of cross-agency data warehousing, alliances and digital certificates for tax agents is mirroring the efforts of people seeking fraudulent identities. The ATO has released more than 300,000 digital certificates to tax agents in an attempt to create more stringent authentication procedures. One person deported within 12 hours after trying to slip one past the ATO last year.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2119790/australia-tax-office-works-to-curb-id-theft.html