IRS failed to implement 44 security recommendations since 2011, inspector general tells Senate panel. Inspector general Russell George says IRS should have implemented those recommendations. IRS Get Transcript breach exposed 104,000 taxpayer accounts last month. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen: “We are running an antiquated system, with some applications that are 50 years old” Both witnesses testify that criminal gangs operating in several countries, not just Russia, as some news accounts reported. “They are, in fact, operating globally [and] are not constrained by geographic locations,” he says.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/controls-might-have-averted-irs-breach-a-8277