STOP, if you’ve started to e-file your state taxes through Turbo tax. A new breach story.

  • Team Omega
  • February 6, 2015

This is painful especially when you have already made plans on how to spend that tax return. Here’s a new story.  People using TurboTax to claim their tax returns are finding out that the refund has already been deposit into a different bank account.

“During this tax season, Intuit and some states have seen an increase in suspicious filings and attempts by criminals to use stolen identity information to file fraudulent state tax returns and claim tax refunds,” the company said in a statement.

Intuit that owns TurboTax says that the breaches occurred through another source not through the TurboTax preparation process.

“As it worked with state governments to assess and resolve the recent issues, Intuit took the precautionary step Thursday, Feb. 5, of temporarily pausing its transmission of state e-filing tax returns,” the company’s statement continued.

“Intuit will be working with the states today to begin turning transmissions back on. Customers who have already filed their state tax returns using Intuit software during this temporary pause will have their returns transmitted as soon as possible. They do not need to take further action at this time. This action does not affect the filing of federal income tax returns, and is limited to those states that require residents to file returns.”

Read entire press release from Intuit.

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