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Taxpayer Data Gets Exposed

BATON ROUGE, LA—An accidental printing job mailed out by the Louisiana Department of Revenue exposed the personal information of nearly 300 taxpayers to other people with tax debts, according to the Associated Press. The department said letters that were mailed to taxpayers who owed money included the name, address, social security number and debt amount for a different taxpayer on the other side of the document. Officials at the Department of Revenue stated that they have no reason to suspect the personal information has been misused.