The CIO for the Internal Revenue Service told a congressional panel Oct. 4 that she learned of a $7 million contract awarded to Equifax for fraud prevention and e-authentication “this morning” and did not sign off on the award.
The contract, made public late in the afternoon on Saturday, Sept. 29, was awarded less than one month after the credit monitoring agency disclosed the largest data breach in modern history, where as many as 145 million Americans had their personally identifiable information exposed.
