RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - More taxpayers will be receiving letters from the IRS, notifying them that their personal tax information may have been accessed by computer hackers. This week the IRS said the new potential victims increased the number of affected taxpayers to 334,000.

“As it did in May, the IRS is moving aggressively to protect taxpayers whose account information may have been accessed,” accordingn to an IRS statement. “The IRS will begin mailing letters in the next few days to about 220,000 taxpayers where there were instances of possible or potential access to ‘Get Transcript’ taxpayer account information.”

According to the IRS, the hacking began last November. The agency publicly acknowledged the breach earlier this year.

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