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Post by healthy11 on Mar 11, 2017 17:05:33 GMT -5
www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-education/2017/03/feds-disable-key-financial-aid-tool-219164 states, "The IRS and Education Department confirmed late Thursday that the federal government purposefully shut off an online tool used by millions of students each year to apply for federal student aid. The IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which allows students to automatically import tax information onto their Free Application for Federal Student Aid, will be “unavailable for several weeks” as a result of concerns about security of student data, the two agencies said in a statement...."
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Post by healthy11 on Apr 6, 2017 23:03:03 GMT -5
www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/breach-of-financial-aid-tool-may-have-compromised-data-on-100000-taxpayers/117659"Nearly 100,000 taxpayers may have had their personal information compromised by a security breach of an Internal Revenue Service tool that makes it easier to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the Fafsa, according to the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, who testified on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee. The tool, which mysteriously and abruptly went offline in March, is scheduled to be available again in October, officials have said. Mr. Koskinen testified that 35,000 letters had already been sent out notifying people whose data may have been compromised."
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