W-2 Fraud thanks to the IRS

 
In May 2015, the IRS took down its “Get Transcript” service after tax refund fraudsters began using it to pull W-2 data on more than 724,000 taxpayers. In those cases, the fraudsters also already had the victim’s SSN, DoB and other personal data. In March 2016, the IRS suspended its “Get IP PIN” feature for the same reason.