IRS Video - includes a number of best practices and testimony from a CPA about what he had to do for his practice and for himself after a data breach occurred (download materials from this presentation)
Written Testimony of Commissioner Koskinen before the House Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Oversight on the 2016 Filing Season, Cybersecurity and Protecting Taxpayer Information
A Privacy Checklist for CPA Firms - This checklist provides CPA firms with practical illustration of selected Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) in order to maintain privacy best practices within organizations.
Protecting Confidential Client Data (Powerpoint) – A sample PowerPoint presentation that CPAs can use to educate their clients, employees, and/or firm management regarding the proper handling of sensitive digital information, and the effective use security technology to help reduce risk.
Identity Theft Interactive Forms from Idaho Legal Aid Services: •• Letter to Creditor - Use this interactive interview for responding to someone collecting a bill that is in your name, but a bill you did not authorize. •• Letter to Debt Collector - Use this interactive interview for responding to a company or law firm that is aDebt Collector,or collecting a bill that is in your name but you did not authorize. •• Letter to Credit Bureau - Use this interactive interview to create a letter to a Credit Bureau,seeking investigation and removal from your credit report of items that are the result of identity theft.
Credit Reports This central site allows you to request a free credit file disclosure, commonly called a credit report, once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. •Online: - https://www.annualcreditreport.com - (copy and paste link) •By phone: 877.322.8228 •By mail: Annual Credit Report Request Service, PO Box 105281, Atlanta, Ga., 30348-5281.