We think we are nibbling away at (that lead). Up until now the largest worry was 'What happens to me if I get audited?' But if you use any of our products, a tax professional will assist you in preparing for that audit. ...The reason we can do that is because we have the 12,000 offices around the country.
The Social Security numbers on the packages had no formatting that would make them stand out, and no one would have been able to easily identify them as a Social Security number.
We believe the risk to be minimal and the only person who would recognize this as a social security number would be the recipient, and in most cases, recipients didn't even notice.
Microsoft's Bill Gates could have filed for free.
While we firmly believe the risk is minimal, we viewed our primary responsibility was to communicate with the affected recipients to let them know it happened.
The service will not cost them anything.
No one wants to get that envelope with Internal Revenue Service in the upper left-hand corner. No good can come of that, usually.
The size of our mailing is competitive information and we do not reveal our figures.
We have been investigating this issue, but I do not know who was responsible for this breach of security.
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