The Internal Revenue Service issued a public apology to Citadel CEO Ken Griffin as part of the settlement of a lawsuit he filed following the leak of thousands of Americans tax data.
The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday issued a public apology to billionaire Ken Griffin and thousands of Americans, including former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk who had their personal information leaked to the media. "The Internal Revenue Service sincerely apologizes to Mr. Kenneth Griffin and the thousands of other Americans whose personal information was leaked to the press," the IRS said in a statement.
Littlejohn improperly accessed the data through an IRS database and uploaded the tax returns to a private website as a means of circumventing the agency's safeguards to prevent large downloads or uploads from IRS devices and systems. He then saved the tax returns on multiple storage devices before passing along the data to media outlets in 2019 and 2020. Littlejohn gave Trump's tax information to the New York Times and provided data on others, including Griffin and Musk, to ProPublica.
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