- Jun 13, 2000
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My wife works for a doctor's office. Some idiot in HR installed a Trojan or fell for a phishing scam (this is our best guess). Everyone's tax data got compromised.
I hurried up and got all of our stuff together and tried to e-file tonight...sure enough, her SSN has already been filed on a return. I know this has been happening pretty frequently and there is a basic form you can submit to the IRS via snail mail to resolve the issue...when they get around to it.
Her office was kind enough to offer 1 year of Life Lock for free. It's an amazing $59 value or whatever they charge for it. I've already put a 90 day watch on her account with one of the credit bureaus..... Since her employer is responsible for the data breach through lack of training or at least for hiring an idiot, what should we request to make us feel better about this?
Thanks for any advice or guidance....and get ready to see this sort of thing happen more and more frequently.
I hurried up and got all of our stuff together and tried to e-file tonight...sure enough, her SSN has already been filed on a return. I know this has been happening pretty frequently and there is a basic form you can submit to the IRS via snail mail to resolve the issue...when they get around to it.
Her office was kind enough to offer 1 year of Life Lock for free. It's an amazing $59 value or whatever they charge for it. I've already put a 90 day watch on her account with one of the credit bureaus..... Since her employer is responsible for the data breach through lack of training or at least for hiring an idiot, what should we request to make us feel better about this?
Thanks for any advice or guidance....and get ready to see this sort of thing happen more and more frequently.