IBM Security published a report that points out a growing trend of hackers stealing tax data and selling it on darknet markets for bitcoin.
What do you guys think about this? Does it make darknet markets look worse than they actually are?
Tax Fraud Has Increased 6,000 Percent in the Last Year Thanks to the Deep Web
IBM Security published a report that points out a growing trend of hackers stealing tax data and selling it on darknet markets for bitcoin.
What do you guys think about this? Does it make darknet markets look worse than they actually are?
[49 Points] None:
[19 Points] samwhiskey:
Taxation is the fraud.
[11 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:
1) Build legit looking free tax prep/e-file website
2) SEO to get it in the first few pages on a Google search
3) Collect all tax information transmitted by customers in a log file before sending it through to the IRS via any other real e-file website
4) ???
5) Profit
[5 Points] LordDongler:
Funny enough, this claim itself looks like fraud to me. Is IBM fishing for service sales of something?
There's no way there is 60x more tax fraud now than there was just a decade ago
[4 Points] VeronicaMonica:
Next year let's aim for over 9000
[3 Points] None:
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[2 Points] dassputnik:
Seems like a good return on investment for those folks
[1 Points] JustAnotherGuyonDMs:
In the end the Tax Auditors will find a way to shut shit down if all else fails 90% of the time it seems like.:/
[1 Points] None:
tax fraud is way more contemporary than these IBM nerds realize --
Sounds good boys let's keep it going