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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Lynch

100,000 HMRC accounts hit as scammers steal £47m in phishing attack

A phishing scam has cost HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) £47 million, a group of MPs has been told.

The personal tax accounts of tens of thousands of people were breached in what two senior civil servants at HMRC described to the Treasury Committee as an "organised crime" incident that began last year.

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