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100,000 accounts have been hit in a HMRC scam campaign, but the tax office says it wasn’t hacked – here’s why

The UK’s tax revenue service has lost £47 million in a breach that started last year and impacted 100,000 people. The HMRC told the treasury select committee yesterday that the account scam was the result of “organized crime” that set up PAYE, or ‘Pay As You Earn’, accounts for individual taxpayers and used them to claim refunds. “This was organized…