TaxSlayer

TaxSlayer, a tax preparation software publisher suffered by a data breach that affacted approximately 9,000 customers.

The compromised data included the customers’ phone numbers, accounts address, social security number and other data containing 2014 tax return.

TaxSlayer offered one year of free credit monitoring to all the affected customers.

Source: https://blog.itgovernanceusa.com/blog/taxslayer-suffers-data-breach-affecting-tax-records-of-8800-customers

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/taxslayerllc

"id": "tax21414522",
"linkid": "taxslayerllc",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2016",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"

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                        'industry': 'Tax Preparation Software',
                        'name': 'TaxSlayer',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 9000,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['phone numbers',
                                              'account addresses',
                                              'social security numbers',
                                              '2014 tax return data']},
 'description': 'TaxSlayer, a tax preparation software publisher, suffered a '
                'data breach that affected approximately 9,000 customers. The '
                'compromised data included the customers’ phone numbers, '
                'account addresses, social security numbers, and other data '
                'from 2014 tax returns. TaxSlayer offered one year of free '
                'credit monitoring to all the affected customers.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['phone numbers',
                                 'account addresses',
                                 'social security numbers',
                                 '2014 tax return data']},
 'title': 'TaxSlayer Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}