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5. Don't they have all the info they need just from one's tax return -- name, address,

Reply to question everything (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 06:28 PM

Jan 2021

social security number, a phone number or email address, financial details, to give a hacker a gold mine?

Decline sharing that info so that it doesn't end up on other databases and servers, yes, good idea, but still whoever hacks into wherever TurboTax users' info is kept has got all they could want.

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Started with TurboTax. Just signed in, confirmed name, address, etc. [View all] question everything Jan 2021 OP

I use the free version of it CountAllVotes Jan 2021 #1

Turbo tax was also hacked in the past. iemitsu Jan 2021 #2

Wow! Never heard of this. One good reason to decline question everything Jan 2021 #4

Don't they have all the info they need just from one's tax return -- name, address, progree Jan 2021 #5

Precisely. All the changes in the past 20 years! So no need to give them more. question everything Jan 2021 #6

They will give you many opportunities to upgrade. Just say no thanks and move on. LiberalBrooke Jan 2021 #3