Snapchat among companies duped in tax document phishing scam
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and SARAH SKIDMORE SELL, Associated Press
Published: March 10, 2016, 6:00am
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SAN FRANCISCO — Tax-filing season is turning into a nightmare for thousands of employees whose companies have been duped by email fraudsters. A major phishing scheme has tricked several major companies — among them, the messaging service Snapchat and disk-drive maker Seagate Technology — into relinquishing tax documents that exposed their workers’ incomes, addresses and Social Security numbers.
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