The online tax filing system crapped out due to bad code. Sometimes crappy code serves to cause more problems than a hacker. The incident at the Canadian Revenue Agency has been ruled out as hacker induced.
The agency says a computer glitch may keep the filing system out of service for a few more days.
The CRA ordered its Efile, Telefile and Netfile services suspended after a malfunction was discovered in the agency’s database on Monday night.
CRA spokesperson Jacqueline Couture said the problem resulted in scrambled information in electronic tax returns.
For instance, in some cases the field for the social insurance number was instead filled in with a birth date.
Craptacular.
Tax dollars hard at work.
[tags]Tax, System Failure, Canada Revenue Agency, Internet Tax Filing[/tags]