Tag: $7.25

16 OCT

Federal watchdog tells Equifax—no $7.25 million IRS contract for you

Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday rejected Equifax’s bid to retain its $ 7.25 million “taxpayer identity” contract—the one awarded days after Equifax announced it had exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal data of some 145 million people. At its core, the Equifax-IRS ordeal reveals the strangeness of […]

04 OCT

IRS awards Equifax no-bid, $7.25 million contract after hack

Enlarge (credit: Smith Collection Gado/Getty Images) Just because your resume says you exposed the personal data, including Social Security numbers, of some 143 million Americans while practicing unsafe security, it doesn’t mean you can’t score a multi-million dollar contract with the Internal Revenue Service. That’s the case even if your name is Equifax and you’re being contracted […]