Intuit Inc., maker of TurboTax, has seen 3700 percent increase in fraudulent state tax refund filings this year in some states. TurboTax temporarily suspended state refund filings while it investigated the source of the spike. Tax fraudsters have evolved in response to increased information sharing by the IRS with state revenue departments about phony tax returns received at the federal level. Intuit has watched fraudsters shift from attacking the IRS to robbing state coffers, but the methods they use to steal taxpayer data also are evolving.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/the-rise-in-state-tax-refund-fraud/