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Fake tax return filings probed at California university

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in News

Imagine filing your tax return electronically only to be told by the IRS that you’ve already filed. That’s what 93 graduate students at the University of California at Irvine, recently discovered.

While police don’t know how the students’ identification information, primarily their Social Security numbers were obtained, the incident is just one of a series of nationwide breaches that led to a state law banning use of Social Security numbers as student identification.

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