"Unfortunately, the bad guys have a lot of places to get information," Miller said.Īll it takes to file a fraudulent return under someone else's identity is a name and Social Security number. The state said its own systems had not been compromised and could not say how a criminal could have gotten access to the previous year's filings.īut it warned that Utah taxpayers who filed state income tax returns electronically prior to 2014 through third-party vendors are potentially affected. Utah's fraud detection system indicates that whoever is filing the fraudulent claims probably has access to taxpayers' returns from previous years. "That is off the chart for us," said Charlie Roberts, a spokesman for the state's tax commission. Another 8,000 were flagged as suspicious and are being investigated. In Utah, 28 fraudulent returns were filed over the course of two days this week, the Tax Commission said. Nineteen states in total identified similar problems, according to the Utah Tax Commission. Miller declined to name the states, but Minnesota, Alabama and Utah all reported issues. And in the meantime it has beefed up its security technology to protect customers against ID theft.Ībout 29 million people used TurboTax to file their tax returns last year.Įarlier Friday, Intuit spokeswoman Julie Miller said the company had heard from a "small handful of states" that saw an uptick in suspicious filings.
The investigation is ongoing, Intuit said.
Federal returns, which have more stringent fraud controls in place, were unaffected by the outage.
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