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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Vicky Shaw

HMRC failure to notify MPs sooner about £49m phishing scam ‘unacceptable’

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been warned by a committee of MPs that its failure to report details of a breach affecting around 100,000 taxpayers is “unacceptable”.

The Treasury Committee said it was only alerted to the information when a notification was published on the HMRC website on the same day as a live session.

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