IDENTITY theft has for long been considering a part of reel life but now it is walking into real life as well. The IRS recently revealed that 105 people in 23 states had been targeted as part of a national identity theft crackdown involving the potential theft of thousands of identities and taxpayer refunds. The IRS has been at war with a nearly five-fold increase in taxpayer identity theft between 2008 and 2010, a Government Accountability Office official told a House hearing last summer. Incidents spiraled from about 52,000 in 2008 to nearly 250,000 in 2010.

If this was not enough redressal to these thefts are snail paced and the vacancies in the IRS are also to blame for the scenario. The vacancies are not being filled in as it is being said that a federal hiring freeze is responsible.