Following the hacking incident involving the IRS’s Get Transcript web application discovered in May, the IRS conducted an extensive review to assess whether other suspicious activity occurred. The IRS has identified more questionable attempts to obtain transcripts using sensitive information. As a result, the IRS is moving immediately to notify and help protect these taxpayers.
The IRS will begin mailing letters in the next few days to about 220,000 taxpayers whose “Get Transcript” account information was potentially accessed by unauthorized parties. As an additional protective step, the IRS will mail letters to approximately 170,000 other households alerting them that their personal information could be at risk even though identity thieves failed in efforts to access the IRS system.
The IRS is taking a wide variety of actions to protect taxpayers beyond the mailings, including offering taxpayers free credit protection as well as Identity Protection PINs.
The Get Transcript service remains unavailable. You may order transcripts using the Get Transcript by Mail service. The IRS has released a statement on the situation as well as updated their Questions and Answers.

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