Anonymous ID: 7fd263 April 21, 2020, 8:38 a.m. No.8873528   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3552 >>3553 >>3578

>>8873087

Kind of frustrating when your tax refund is being stalled, so your stimulus is being stalled, and unemployment is as well. But hey, we can always watch Nancy and the ice cream segment, right?

Not cool.

 

The IRS is drowning in unopened tax refund requests amid pandemic

 

The IRS is piling unopened business tax refund requests into storage trailers and advising companies to file by fax instead. It’s stopped answering phone calls on taxpayer assistance lines. And it’s not processing millions of paper tax returns filed by individual Americans.

 

The coronavirus pandemic has nearly crippled the tax collection agency, which relies on antiquated technology and still does a lot of business on paper, just as it is most needed to help pump money into the ailing economy.

 

All of the agency’s processing and taxpayer assistance centers have been shuttered to shield its workforce from exposure to the virus. With the normal tax filing deadline delayed until July 15, the IRS has turned most of its attention to implementing a key part of the federal government’s most recent economic rescue plan — sending out stimulus payments of up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for couples, plus $500 for children under 17.

 

As a result, millions of individual taxpayers and businesses could face lengthy delays before they receive refunds they desperately need as the coronavirus halts their incomes. Taxpayers disputing how much they owe or waiting to see if they qualify for tax credits also could have to wait indefinitely.

 

“Clearly, most day-to-day operations at the IRS have stood down, that’s the blunt reality,” said a former commissioner, Mark Everson, who ran the agency from 2003 until 2007.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/20/irs-tax-refund-delays-snail-mail-193786

Anonymous ID: 7fd263 April 21, 2020, 9:18 a.m. No.8873855   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8873784

>LabCorp

 

LabCorp security lapse exposed thousands of medical documents

 

A security flaw in LabCorp’s website exposed thousands of medical documents, like test results containing sensitive health data.

 

It’s the second incident in the past year after LabCorp said in June that 7.7 million patients had been affected by a credit card data breach of a third-party payments processor. That breach also hit several other laboratory testing companies, including Quest Diagnostics.

 

This latest security lapse was caused by a vulnerability on a part of LabCorp’s website, understood to host the company’s internal customer relationship management system. Although the system appeared to be protected with a password, the part of the website designed to pull patient files from the back-end system was left exposed. That unprotected web address was visible to search engines and was later cached by Google, making it accessible to anyone who knew where to look. The cached search result only returned one document — a document containing a patient’s health information. But changing and incrementing the document number in the web address made it possible to access other documents.

 

The bug is now fixed.

 

Read more here

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/labcorp-website-bug-medical-data-exposed/