Data relating to over 120,000 individuals using a specific type of tax return may have been lost by the IRS.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has revealed (opens in new tab) it inadvertently exposed the data of approximately 120,000 US taxpayers.
The agency says that all of the offending information has now been removed from its website, and it will send notifications to all those impacted within the coming weeks.
The leak impacted users of a specific type of business tax return, Form 990-T, used by tax-exempt entities such as charities and retirement accounts, to pay income tax on income that is generated from investments or unrelated to their primary purpose.
