IRS accidentally publishes personal details of 120,000 taxpayers on its website

The IRS accidentally published the personal financial information of roughly 120,000 taxpayers, the agency said on Friday.

Taxpayers' Form 990-Ts were temporarily made available for public viewing on the agency’s website, but the IRS has since removed them, according to reports published by the Wall Street Journal. American taxpayers file the 990-T to disclose specific types of income related to their retirement accounts.

The published forms revealed names and personal information of the filers, as well as some of their financial records. The U.S. Treasury said the information breach did not disclose social security numbers or information that could negatively impact peoples credit.

Treasury Department acting Assistant Secretary for Management Anna Canfield Roth informed Congress on Friday informing them the department was “continuing to review this situation.”

“The Treasury Department has instructed the IRS to conduct a prompt review of its practices to ensure necessary protections are in place to prevent unauthorized data disclosures,” she wrote.

The agency’s inadvertent breach comes just after passage of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which is funding the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents as part of a $740 billion spending package.