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Cracking the Tax Code: The taxman is the latest victim of identity theft. The Internal Revenue Service said hackers stole tax-return information for about 100,000 U.S. households, including Social Security numbers. The thieves used the IRS's own online services to penetrate its databases, cracking the code of multistep authentication processes. Interestingly, the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, said the incident was "not a hack or data breach. These are imposters pretending to be...