Internal Revenue Service says cyber thieves may have accessed as many as 334,000 taxpayer accounts in a breach of its Get Transcript system. The Get Transcript service, suspended in May, is aimed at simplifying the process taxpayers use to retrieve their tax records. Hackers are believed to have gained access to this taxpayer information, including Social Security numbers. The IRS has conducted a more extensive review, analyzing more than 23 million uses of the system, covering the 2015 filing season, to determine whether other suspicious activities occurred.”]
Source: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/irs-hack-much-wider-than-first-thought-a-8479