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- Consumer reporter Erika Gonzalez has the latest update on how TurboTax is responding to the data hack at Anthem Health Insurance and what Anthem is doing for its customers.
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- The FBI is currently investigating the TurboTax hack but isn't saying much. In fact, considering the scope of the Anthem hack and the state tax refund thefts, together affecting tens of millions.
After the news of the Anthem hack, this report is really disturbing.
The Salt Lake Tribune:
Fraudsters are using stolen personal information to file fake tax returns for real Utahns, hoping to steal refund money, the Utah State Tax Commission said Thursday.
The commission has identified 28 fraudulent filings so far, but has flagged 8,000 others as potential frauds. It said 18 other states so far have identified similar problems.
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Commission spokesman Charlie Roberts said it found that personal information has been stolen from previous returns filed through TurboTax. He said the commission is not yet sure if other programs and companies were affected, nor if the data was stolen from the cloud or some other means.
TurboTax is a huge enterprise serving millions of individual tax filers. Those most likely to be affected by something like this are the ones who don't have complicated tax returns and are eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit or other tax refunds.
These security breaches point to the weakness of using Social Security numbers as identity confirmation. With millions of them in the wild, thanks to the hack on Anthem, it's hard to imagine how they serve as a reliable identifier anymore. It's possible that these hacks will serve to drive solutions to identity provenance that doesn't rely on a single number issued by the US government, but it's hard to imagine that happening fast enough to protect those whose identity is currently at risk.
In the meantime, here's some practical advice for you with regard to your tax returns.
- File as soon as you can - The sooner you claim that refund, the better.
- Protect your data - You can't control the servers at TurboTax, but you can protect your own computer. Make sure you've got strong passwords, good firewall protection, and practice safe surfing.
- If you use Quicken, password-protect that data too - Quicken and TurboTax are both Intuit products that link to one another for tax preparation and financial planning and tracking. Make sure you've locked down your data with a strong password on your machine, and don't store it up in the cloud.
I'll post more on this as details become available.
Update: I should have noted in my original post that TurboTax spends millions to lobby for complicated tax returns, because if they were simple, we could just file them directly with the government without the middleman. It appears that they're less diligent about how they guard the data they collect.
Financial software company Intuit has notified TurboTax customers that some of their personal and financial information was accessed by attackers following what looks like a series of account takeover attacks.
In a breach notification letter sent to affected customers earlier this month, the company said that this was not a 'systemic data breach of Intuit.'
In account takeover attacks, cybercriminals gain access to their victims' accounts using credentials stolen from other online services following past data breaches.
This type of attack works incredibly well against targets who use the same login credentials for multiple sites or services.
'We have more than 100 million customers and see billions of transactions per year with ATO notifications going to less than .0003% of customers and some of those confirmed by the customer after the fact as their activity (not an ATO),' Rick Heineman, Intuit Corporate Communications Vice President, told BleepingComputer.
TurboTax accounts hacked using reused credentials
Intuit discovered during a security review that an undisclosed number of TurboTax accounts was breached and customer info was exposed.
The company's investigation revealed that the threat actors used credentials (usernames and passwords) obtained from 'a non-Intuit source' to gain access to the accounts.
'By accessing your account, the unauthorized party may have obtained information contained in a prior year's tax return or your current tax return in progress, such as your name, Social Security number, address(es), date of birth, driver's license number and financial information (e.g., salary and deductions), and information of other individuals contained in the tax return,' Intuit explained.
'We deeply regret that this incident may affect you. Intuit has taken various measures to help ensure that the accounts of affected customers are protected. We are notifying you so you can take steps to help protect your information,' the company added.
After discovering the attacks, Intuit temporarily disabled the breached TurboTax accounts. Users who had their accounts deactivated must contact Intuit's Customer Care department at 1-800-944-8596 and say 'Security' when prompted.
Afterward, Intuit employees will walk them through an identity verification procedure designed to help reactivate the accounts.
Previous alerts of TurboTax account takeovers
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This is not the first time attackers have successfully hacked into TurboTax users' accounts and stole financial and personal information.
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TurboTax customers were previously targeted in at least three other series of account takeover attacks in 2014/2015 and again in 2019.
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Just as after the previous three incidents, Intuit provides one year of free identity protection, credit monitoring, and Experian IdentityWorks identity restoration services to impacted customers.