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Tax Season = Phishing Season

Goldberg Segalla on 4/9/2025

Most professionals are aware of the April 15 tax deadline. We know that fraudsters certainly are! As Tax Day approaches in the U.S., we encourage all to be mindful of several phishing campaigns that Microsoft has observed...more

How to Defend Against Identity Theft This Tax Season

J.S. Held on 12/6/2024

In recent years, identity theft cases have surged, especially during tax season. According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in 2022, the federal agency identified and prevented USD 5.7 billion in tax-related fraud, and...more

A Reminder For Employers About W-2 Phishing Scams

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/10/2021

For the past several years, thousands of businesses have been hit with phishing scams during tax season. Through these social engineering scams, hackers obtain employee Forms W-2 for filing fraudulent tax returns seeking...more

Professional Tax Preparers – You Need A Written Information Security Plan, Say The IRS And FTC

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 12/6/2019

Tax season will soon be upon us and many not-so-eager taxpayers will share sensitive personal information about themselves, their dependents, their employees, and others with their trusted professional tax preparers for...more

Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 4: Recognize Identity Theft

Snell & Wilmer on 8/15/2019

The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to...more

Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 3: Avoid E-mail Phishing Scams

Snell & Wilmer on 8/14/2019

Don’t Take the Bait! “Spear Phishing” and “Whaling” Take Scams to the Next Level

Fisher Phillips on 1/29/2019

For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more

Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

Bowditch & Dewey on 12/18/2018

Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

Of Course I Meant to Send the Email, But Not to the Criminal - Court Rules that Companies Have a Duty to Train Employees on...

Brooks Pierce on 4/12/2018

With the April 17 tax deadline fast approaching, businesses need to remain vigilant for employee reports (or more likely questions) about fraudulent tax returns being filed in their names. Multiple employee reports of...more

Employers Take Note: Tax Season Phishing Scams on the Rise

Fisher Phillips on 2/21/2018

It is tax season once again, and with it comes an increased threat of phishing scams targeting human resources and payroll personnel. In 2016, the IRS alerted employers to a then-emerging email phishing scheme in which...more

Kentucky Federal Court Brushes Aside Pre-emptive Attack on Class Allegations in Phishing Case, Rejects Out-of-the-Box Defense...

BakerHostetler on 12/29/2017

Brushing aside apparent flaws in a proposed class definition, a federal court in Kentucky declined to dismiss class allegations against North Carolina-based pharmacy services provider Pharm-Save Inc. (Pharm-Save) stemming...more

It’s Tax Time – Alert Your HR and Payroll Teams About W2 Phishing Scams

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 12/18/2017

Last February, the IRS issued a warning to all employers regarding the resurgence of a W-2 based cyber scam. The scam, which targets businesses during tax season, was also “spreading to other sectors, including school...more

Celebrate National Tax Security Awareness Week!

Snell & Wilmer on 11/27/2017

While it may be better known as “Cyber Monday”, today also marks the start of the second annual National Tax Security Awareness Week (November 27 to December 1). The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the tax...more

Let's Go Phishing!

Fisher Phillips on 3/4/2017

Emails, lots and lots of emails, filling our inboxes. Even with the best security and filters, it seems that hackers are simply building better mousetraps. The bigger problem, however, is the trusting nature of individuals...more

ALERT: Beware of W-2 Scam!

McGuireWoods LLP on 2/17/2017

Our Data Privacy and Security team is currently assisting multiple clients in responding to nearly identical fraudulent requests for IRS Form W-2 information. Significantly, these clients are in a number of industries and are...more

Keeping Your Company’s Data Safe This Tax Season

Latham & Watkins LLP on 2/14/2017

Tax-related identity theft is nothing new, but tax season 2016 took tax schemes to a new level. Last year, our cyber experts advised a large cluster of clients (public and private companies) over a period of only two...more

Safeguarding Your Company from Cyber Tax Crimes - Take Action Now!

Clark Hill PLC on 2/7/2017

As if tax season was not bad enough, the U.S. Internal Revenue Services ("IRS") recently issued an urgent alert warning that cybercriminal phishing scams are utilizing a new, more dangerously effective method for large-scale...more

Dangerous W-2 Phishing Scam Evolving; Targeting Schools, Restaurants, Hospitals, Tribal Groups and Others

BCLP on 2/6/2017

The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the tax industry issued an urgent alert today to all employers that the Form W-2 email phishing scam has evolved beyond the corporate world and is spreading to other...more

It’s Tax Time – Don’t be Phished

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 2/2/2017

It’s that taxing time of the year. Employees have received W-2 forms and the tax filing season has begun in earnest. And, as night follows day, last year’s W-2 spear-phishing scam has returned. The IRS and state tax...more

Tax Season Is in Full Swing: Beware of the W-2 Spear Phishing Scam

BakerHostetler on 1/16/2017

Last year we saw an unprecedented number of companies of all sizes fall victim to a W-2 spear phishing scam. The scam usually began with a “spoofing” email that appeared to have been sent by a company’s CEO or CFO to one or...more

Emerging Trends Newsletter - Q2

Stinson LLP on 7/20/2016

We are thrilled to bring you the 2nd installment of Stinson Leonard Street's Emerging Trends newsletter. Recent Delaware Supreme Court Opinion Limits General Personal Jurisdiction for Foreign Corporation - Recent...more

Phishing Season Opens for 2016 Tax Filings – Beware of “W-2 Phishing Scams”

K&L Gates LLP on 4/11/2016

Tax season brings many headaches, but none as miserable as sophisticated scammer efforts to steal employee W-2 information. Using social engineering and modest technological tools, a “spear phishing” attack seeks to trick...more

Recent Developments in Cybersecurity: The SEC is Preparing Cases against Firms for Lack of Cybersecurity Preparedness and Phishing...

Goodwin on 4/5/2016

SEC Enforcement - Andrew Ceresney, head of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement confirmed during a panel discussion at the Investment Company Institute’s Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference in Orlando, Fla.,...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2016

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/4/2016

In this edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the FCC's proposed privacy rules for broadband providers; new developments relating to the Privacy Shield, which was created to replace the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor...more

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