IRS Commissioner: More than 1 million daily hacking attempts

(CNSNews.com) — IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service's computers "withstand more than 1 million malicious attempts to access them each day."
"We work continuously to protect our main computer systems from cyber attacks and to safeguard taxpayer information stored in our databases. These systems withstand more than 1 million malicious attempts to access them each day," Koskinen said in his opening statement.