Oversight chair calls IRS system outage a possible hack

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A system failure at the Internal Revenue Service may have been the result of a cyberattack, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee said on Thursday.

“My initial gut reaction is, that may be a hack. You just don’t have systems collapse, and people can’t use the systems online, it’s not like they run out of batteries or something,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.

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