As reported by NBC4 :

A Turbo Tax customer herself, the woman attempted to access some past filings and the route she took online opened returns for several others with the same last name but different first initials.
She was able to access tax returns for Turbo Tax customers she never met in different parts of the country. On her screen, she found everything needed for electronic filing from bank account to routing digits and Social Security numbers.

OK, so if some innocent woman accidentally stumbled upon this, what is the likelihood that the real bad guys haven’t just seen it, but exploited it too?

If I were a paying customer of TurboTax Online, I would immediately demand they remove my information from their system and provide me a full refund, as well as a few years of a credit monitoring service at Intuit’s expense. Of course, why anyone would prepare their taxes on a website seems kind of strange to me…

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