IR-2025-88: Security Summit: IRS reminds tax pros to guard against identity theft as summer series wraps up


Issue Number: IR-2025-88

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Security Summit: IRS reminds tax pros to guard against identity theft as summer series wraps up

Week 5 of “Protect Your Clients; Protect Yourself” offers tax pros tools and advice to help protect important data.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners are closing out the fifth and final week of the “Protect Your Clients; Protect Yourself” awareness series by reminding tax professionals to stay vigilant and strengthen safeguards to protect against identity theft. In the first half of the year there were nearly 300 data breaches reported impacting as many as 250,000 clients.

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