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by miles 3408 days ago
This sort of victim blaming is all too common in the mainstream press:

IRS Says More Taxpayers May Have Been Hacked http://time.com/4000659/irs-taxpayer-hacked-cybercrime/

It wasn't the taxpayers that were hacked - it was the IRS.

Hackers stole personal information from 104,000 taxpayers, IRS says https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/05/2...

Hackers did not steal personal information from 104,000 taxpayers - they stole it from the IRS.

Smaller media outlets often get it right:

Over 700,000 People Got Screwed in Last Year's IRS Data Breach http://gizmodo.com/over-700-000-people-got-screwed-in-last-y...