IRS: Actually, that breach last year was way worse than we thought

For U.S. taxpayers, the news just keeps getting worse about the cyberattack discovered last year on the IRS's Get Transcript application.

At first, it looked like just over 100,000 taxpayers had been affected. Then, last August, the number was updated to more than 300,000.

Now, it looks like a further 390,000 people's information could have been breached, bringing the total estimate to over 700,000.

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