Martinsburg — A person in Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 60 months, or five many years, from Monday for illegally accessing the Inner Profits Services personal computer and downloading taxpayer transcripts. Prosecutor Invoice Powell reported.

Ludrick Joseph, 39, pleaded guilty to one particular piece of info that accused him of accessing a pc and getting details in March.

In April 2015, Joseph admitted that he experienced acquired unauthorized accessibility to the IRSE Authentication on the net taxpayer process, which has a server in Berkeley County.

Joseph illegally obtained a taxpayer’s electronic submitting pin to pass the IRS protection protocol. This gave him accessibility to the eAuthentication program. On getting into the IRS eAuthentication process, Joseph attained unauthorized obtain to 8 diverse tax returns for personal taxpayers. The tax return contained delicate info these types of as the taxpayer’s date of beginning, social protection variety, and full earnings.

The investigation more discovered that Joseph illegally owned about 2,145 credit history card quantities and 3,875 distinctive Social Security quantities.

Assistant Federal Lawyer Sean M. Adkins has filed a proceeding on behalf of the federal government. It was investigated by a monetary inspector of the Cybercrime Investigation Division of the Tax Administration.

It was presided about by Judge Gina M. Glow of the US District Court.