Senate Finance Committee Request Immediate Briefing by IRS on If the SolarWinds Hack Impacted Taxpayer Data

Senate Finance Committee Request Immediate Briefing by IRS on If the SolarWinds Hack Impacted Taxpayer Data
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), left, talks with Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) during a Senate Finance Committee committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in a 2019 file photograph. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday requested an urgent briefing to discern whether the SolarWinds hack that affected many federal government agencies also compromised taxpayers’ personal data.

Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter (pdf) to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to ask him to come and update the committee about whether private taxpayer information was stolen by hackers.
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