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Treasury Dept Socially Engineers IRS Employees Posted by Pile (5740 views) [E-Mail link] How safe are your government records? It turns out not very. Treasury Department auditors called 100 IRS employees and managers, portraying themselves as personnel from the information technology help desk trying to correct a network problem. They asked the employees to provide their network logon name and temporarily change their password to one they suggested. 35% complied. The good news [sic] is that this is better than 75% of the IRS employees that fell for the ruse in 2001. Details     Comments   Name: (change name for anonymous posting) Title: Comments:     1 Article displayed.

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