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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...

Back-ups that were offsite and tested to be properly off-site. those back-ups do exist somewhere. it is just a matter of finding them and going after them. sfli want to read a portion of the 2013 irs fed info security audit. "until the irs takes steps to fully implement all 11 program secure areas required, taxpayer data will remain vulnerable to inappropriate use, modification or disclosure possibly without being detected." this is yet another problem, right? with this whole situation. take lois lerner's e-mails out of the equation. you actually believe that all of our personal information wi...