RENEE MONTAGNE, host: In business news, the IRS puts taxpayers at risk of identity theft.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: A new report says the IRS is doing a bad job of protecting your personal information. An inspector general audit says that nearly 500 IRS laptops are nowhere to be found. In addition, the report says many other IRS computers had easy-to-crack passwords and contained sensitive data that had not been properly secured. The IRS says it's working to correct the problems and that so far no case of identity theft has been linked to the missing laptops.
A new report says the IRS is doing a bad job of protecting personal information. Nearly 500 IRS laptops are nowhere to be found and many other IRS computers had easy-to-crack passwords. The IRS says it's working to correct the problems.