For Handling Of Hacked Data The U.S. Lawmaker Calls On IRS Chief To Resign

For Handling Of Hacked Data The U.S. Lawmaker Calls On IRS Chief To Resign

A Republican lawmaker said on Friday that the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service should leave their job because of incapacity of the agency to recover its defenses alongside hacking on the data of taxpayer. 

Republican Representative Barbara Comstock said new leadership is desired to substitute the IRS Commissioner John Koskinen because of its failure to protected the sensitive information of Americans from malicious intrusion for getting bigger a line of attack from Republicans who regularly disapprove of the collection service of the federal tax.

Comstock said in a statement that "Commissioner Koskinen has provided little confidence that cyber security is a top priority at the IRS.” And also adding that she was worried about the agency appeared that it has no one in charge of cyber security.

Even the IRS did not instantly comment.

The IRS announced in February more than 700,000 specific persons that may have to consist their personal information which is pilfered by the attackers through an intrusion in the last year. That number has been constantly modified upward from initial approximation that was far smaller.

Comstock said in her statement that quoted a report of Government Accountability Office that released on last month which discovered the IRS struggling to improve its scheme of information security. Even the IRS approved to work towards the executing the dozens of suggestion that could be outlined.

This week, Koskinen emerged before congressional committees and said fulfilling with the GAO recommendations was a priority.

The commissioner has been under near-constant fire from Republicans since he took over the society in 2013 along with the controversy over wherever the IRS was an objective of the conventional groups.

There were more than 60 Republicans that have signed on to a resolution established in October to accused Koskinen on charges that he has obstructed a congressional investigation into the treatment of IRS of conventional groups.

And an aide said that Comstock is the first lawmaker who calls for exclusive resignations of Koskinen for the reasons of cyber security.

Koskinen is not the first official administration of Obama which would be targeted by the Congress for his  management of cyber security. Last year Katherine Archuleta who is the head of the Office of Personnel Management, left after numerous lawmakers from both parties who is called for her expulsion following the theft of personal data of more than 21 million specific persons.

On Friday, Comstock said that Koskinen should pursue the lead of Archuleta as well as other top management who have left because of poor treatment of attacks "to allow for new and trusted leadership at the IRS."

Source: Reuters