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Re: Data Breach Omnibus Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:06 am
by ochotona
Anyone who has been the victim of a data breach may get an IRS PIN. You don't have to be invited. Just put "Equifax breach" as the reason.
Re: Data Breach Omnibus Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:38 am
by Kriegsspiel
dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:52 am
I love that the chair of Cap One is named Mr Fairbank. He was born for this.
Xan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:09 am
Well, at first I thought it was interesting that it was a woman. First time I've heard of a woman being the perp for a crime of this variety. Then came to discover.. it wasn't.
Maybe he's born with it.
Maybe it's make-believe.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out ... y-n1045736
Re: Data Breach Omnibus Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:38 pm
by dualstow
at maybelline reference.
Re: Data Breach Omnibus Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 7:51 am
by WiseOne
ochotona wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:06 am
Anyone who has been the victim of a data breach may get an IRS PIN. You don't have to be invited. Just put "Equifax breach" as the reason.
Not so. The IRS is clear that you have to have been invited OR live in one of a short list of states to get a PIN. I tried putting in a request and was denied.
I don't get why this is, but I suppose the answer "because it's a government agency and random insanity happens" is a good enough reason.
Re: Data Breach Omnibus Thread
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:05 am
by ochotona
WiseOne wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 7:51 am
ochotona wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:06 am
Anyone who has been the victim of a data breach may get an IRS PIN. You don't have to be invited. Just put "Equifax breach" as the reason.
Not so. The IRS is clear that you have to have been invited OR live in one of a short list of states to get a PIN. I tried putting in a request and was denied.
I don't get why this is, but I suppose the answer "because it's a government agency and random insanity happens" is a good enough reason.
That's terrible, when we applied, the only thing we had to put in as a reason was that our identities were exposed during the 2018 Equifax breach. Well, it's the government, there's no telling. I did it right after the breach, in November 2018, when it was hot and top of mind for everyone.
at maybelline reference.