Lee B

Did you see that yahoo just announced that several years ago when their email database was hacked that every customers information was exposed which is 3 times the number that they had previously admitted to ! IT security experts are now saying that with hackers getting more aggressive and sophisticated that this situation is only going to continue to get worse !

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I am not a non-profit expert, but your logic makes sense to me !

Take a c;lose detailed look at the original circumstances of the election and look for something that disqualifies the original election.

I am so happy that Oregon has no sales tax. It's extended my career by years.

Oregon has a one page form where the projected taxable income and resulting state income tax must be calculated either by the taxpayer or his accountant. The taxpayer has to take the signed form to the escrow agency who withholds the tax from the proceeds and forwards it to the Oregon Dept of Revenue. The escrow will not close without the form.

Yes, Oregon has a very similar law and withholding rules.

It is very unlikely that we will ever know those details ! Equifax doesn't appear to be the kind of stand up organization with a high level of integrity that would provide those details. I predict that they will stall and try to run out the clock with assumption that this will all blow over. Anyone who thinks that they will receive some measure of accountability out of this mess will likely be very disappointed ! Don't forget that this industry is basically unregulated !!!

The international accounting firm Deloitte announced today that they discovered back in March that their email system had been hacked back in the fall of 2016. They reassured everyone that no client's confidential information had been affected. My question is, how would they know ?

It was in my local Sunday Paper in print but here is the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/equifax-data-breach.html?mcubz=3r

I forgot to mention that they also have pretty complete databases of public information like birth records, death records, drivers license info etc, which they match with our credit info and you guessed it they sell it.

The New York Times has a long detailed article about the evolution of Equifax. I encourage everyone to read it ! Several things that caught my attention: 1. Equifax is totally focused on the marketing of their data brokerage services ! 2. On a daily basis they data mine all of our social media interactions i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc, match that up with everyone's credit information and sell that information. 3. Almost all of the large employers like Walmart, Kroger etc give Equifax all of their payroll information which is then matched with everyone's credit info and sold ! 4. They currently have the payroll info of 50 % of all the employees in the U S, which they market to human resource departments. 5. With the exception of a few credit union officials, no one from a good sized financial institution of any kind will comment. 6. Pete Mills,a senior vice president at the Mortgage Bankers Association said, "We don't really have a choice to opt out of the credit reporting system." After all Equifax likes to refer to itself as "Trusted stewards of Data" I think I will have reread "Brave New World" and "Animal Farm"

I can honestly say that in 25 years, I don't recall any draft dupiicates, incorrect amounts or disputed amounts from etransactions. I do recall multiple times having to provide revenue agencies front and back copies of cancelled checks to the wrong place, because the check payment was posted by a low level employee to the wrong place.

As a practical matter, the move toward efiling and epayments is combination of budgetary pressures at both the state and federal level and the resulting desire to improve productivity in order to reduce personnel costs. In addition, revenue agencies are a favorite whipping boy for politicians who then cut their budgets. As a result the IRS is planning on reducing our ability to call and talk to IRS employees by implementing interactive bot apps to handle most questions. This trend is well under way and is not going to slow down. One of my payroll clients received a failure to file notice for their 2nd quarter Oregon Payroll Reports, when I had filed it online and had an email acknowledgement of the processing of the report by the state. It turns out they had received and processed the report, but it was sitting in limbo and the processing of the report was not finalized and recorded. So I had to call and sit on hold for 15 minutes before I could talk to someone who put me on hold again while they tried to find the quarterly report in their data processing system. Start to finish including talking to my client, I probably spent a total of 45 minutes resolving an incorrectly issued notice. Still, I think it's an improvement over the days of using low paid temporary employees to key in each report's information or to manually open envelopes and prepare bank deposits.

The chairs of the committees in Congress that have oversight in this area have supposedly already signaled to the financial industry that no new laws will forthcoming and that "business as usual will continue". I am afraid that will will have to look the attorney generals of states like California and New York for any action and redress. Sad !

Current advice from Avast/Piriform: 1. Piriform said in a blog post its parent company Avast discovered the hack affected two products -- CCleaner v5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191 -- on September 12. The firm has since updated the software. 2. Piriform advises Windows users to check if they are running compromised versions, delete the app, and install the new safe version

It turns out that the update that Avast is encouraging is actually an upgrade to their "Professional Version" for $24.95 minus a $ 5.00 discount.

I didn't copy the whole article, just this announcement from Avast, who makes CCleaner: "Finally, it is extremely important to us to resolve the issue on customer machines. For consumers, we stand by the recommendation to upgrade CCleaner to the latest version (now 5.35, after we have revoked the signing certificate used to sign the impacted version 5.33) and use a quality antivirus product, such as Avast Antivirus. For corporate users, the decision may be different and will likely depend on corporate IT policies. At this stage, we cannot state that the corporate machines could not be compromised, even though the attack was highly targeted." Briefly, hackers apparently found a back door in earlier versions of CCleaner, which they used to get into an estimated 2,300,000 systems including many of the best known tech firms. Will this ever stop ???

Drake, much better service and support and less money.

Personally, I would just correct it going forward.

Which software program are you using ?

Perhaps this should be a separate topic ? The SEC announced today that they recently discovered that their database containing sensitive corporate information which could have used to generate insider trading profits was hacked back in 2016. So here we all are being bounced around like ping pong balls in a game we can't see by unknown players waiting for our number to come up like a reverse lottery. Any thoughts that we as individuals have control are sadly probably delusional .

Actually, I read a story about the creation of the site. The site was deliberately created by a software engineer the day the news of the hack was first announced. He then inserted the link to his fake site into Equifax's tweet as an object lesson of how easy it is hack a company like Equifax. According to the creator, the fake site was just a dummy, which didn't collect or save any information. Very funny, I really needed a chuckle at that moment !

One of the executives who sold his stock and then had the audacity to claim he knew nothing was the Equifax CFO. #*#*#*#*

Bart, I agree that is usually what happens, although I did receive $ 4,900 from a class action lawsuit against Charles Schwab.