Security Summit warns tax pros of evolving email and cloud-based schemes to steal taxpayer data

[Elrod]

IR-2022-143, July 26, 2022

WASHINGTON — As part of a special Security Summit series, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and nation's tax industry warn tax professionals to beware of evolving scams designed to steal client data.

The Security Summit partners continue to see instances where tax professionals have been vulnerable to identity theft phishing emails that pose as potential clients. The criminals then trick practitioners into opening email links or attachments that infect computer systems with the potential to steal client information.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/security-summit-warns-tax-pros-of-evolving-email-and-cloud-based-schemes-to-steal-taxpayer-data