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The u.s. government has fallen victim to hackers accessing personal information of hundreds of thousands of citizens. they point out one data leak could compromise taxpayers, especially foreigners to extortion or kidnapping or ransom demands if foreigners acquire their information. >> all it is is one rogue employee, one rogue anybody and somebody's life potentially at risk. >> the irs claims the data is secure. in a statement the agency says before exchanging with a particular jurisdiction, the united states conducted detailed reviews of that jurisdiction's laws and infrastructure concerning ...

Personal information of hundreds of thousands of citizens. they point out one data leak could compromise taxpayers, especially foreigners to extortion or kidnapping or ransom demands if foreigners acquire their information. >> all it is is one rogue employee, one rogue anybody and somebody's life potentially at risk. >> the irs claims the data is secure. in a statement the agency says before exchanging with a particular jurisdiction, the united states conducted detailed reviews of that jurisdiction's laws and infrastructure concerning the use and protection of taxpayer data. cybersecurity capa...

>> this mostly affects those paying taxes in other countries. this is all under a 2010 dlau. it's an attempt by the u.s. to gather information about u.s. citizens overseas accounts. essentially, internal revenue service is giving information to get information. >> a lot of those governments for a whole host of reasons shouldn't have access to the private financial information of americans. if you have a nexus with another country you're going to get caught up in this information sharing system. >> the irs claims it's safe. before exchanging with particular jurisdiction the united states detect...

>> these attackers used an application provided by the irs. that's unnerving because before we heard they make sure you have a secure password, but any business out there is going have tontr)ñhiy offers to -- apps, de things to invite people into their site so they can acouple late data but becomes a two-way street. >> it does and that's what;xv>j9 happened here with the irs. they can use personal information from individual they're able to get from i'm places. your first pet's name? or birth debts, things that are readily available, to get that information. the problem is if you look at ever...

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