Senator: IRS 'unable or unwilling' to implement cybersecurity law

Department of Homeland Security officials told lawmakers that the IRS is “unable or unwilling” to implement legally-required protections against hackers, according to a top Senate Republican.

“DHS recently briefed Committee staff that the IRS is either unable or unwilling to implement the statutorily required mandates,” Sen. Ron Johnson, who chairs the committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, wrote in a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. “According to DHS, the IRS believes, based on other statutes, that IRS is exempt from these statutory requirements.”