Intuit on Tuesday warned its customers to be on the alert for identity theft scams after a breach at a major marketing firm put millions of email addresses in hackers’ hands. Intuit is not among the more than 50 companies whose customer data was stolen. The popularity of tax-related cons may have prompted Intuit’s move, a security expert says. Other security experts have said that the Epsilon breach will produce a spike in targeted attacks aimed at specific individuals. In years past, criminals have pumped out messages about tax refunds to dupe people into divulging personal information.”]

