Five IRS employees charged with snooping at tax records

Computerworld reports:

Five federal workers at an Internal Revenue Service office in California have been charged with computer fraud for illegally accessing the confidential records of taxpayers.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of California hit all five with the misdemeanor charge of accessing and inspecting the tax return information of individuals unlawfully and without authorization. According to court documents filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the five IRS workers accessed and viewed the records of up to 13 different people early in 2006.

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