TurboTax processed 30 million tax returns last year, Ms. Intuit said state tax returns already filed when the halt began on Thursday would be transmitted as soon as possible. “You have a pretty rich pool of data out there in the world,” Ms. Earlier security breaches have occurred at JPMorgan Chase and retailers that include Home Depot and Target. This week, Anthem, a major health insurer, said hackers had gained access to the Social Security numbers, names, addresses and personal information of about 80 million people. Miller linked the problem to recent security breaches at large companies. Instead, company officials say they think personal information was stolen elsewhere and used to file returns on TurboTax. So far, there has been no security breach of its systems, Intuit said. Intuit is working with a security company, Palantir, to investigate the problem.
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