Audit: IRS Needs to Improve How It Wipes Taxpayer Data from Devices

 Computer and laptop hard drives that aren’t properly scrubbed could allow exposure of private taxpayer data.

A report from the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found flaws regarding how the IRS sanitizes—or gets rid of—taxpayer data contained on agency-owned desktop computers and laptop hard disks.

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