After second bungle, IRS suspends Equifax’s “taxpayer identity” contract

Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Last week we brought news that the Internal Revenue Service awarded a $ 7.2 million contract to Equifax to allow Equifax to “verify taxpayer identity.” The contract was awarded days after Equifax announced it had exposed the personal data, including Social Security numbers, of about 145 million people. The tax-collecting agency […]