Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System 129
CokeJunky writes "During a weekend maintenance window, the Canada Revenue Agency (Fills the same role as the IRS south of the border) experienced data corruption issues in the tax databases. As a precaution, they have disabled all electronic filling services, and paper based returns will be stacking up in the mail room, as returns cannot be filed at all until the problem is fixed. Apparently on Monday they discovered tax fillings submitted electronically where the social insurance number, and the date of birth were swapped."
They need a thorough audit of their systems. (Score:5, Funny)
CCRA (Score:5, Funny)
What a joke! (Score:1, Funny)
NEO: So you're Trinity, the one that f!@#ed up the CRA database?
TRINITY: Would you like poutine with your back-bacon sandwich?
Re:Data Types (Score:3, Funny)
Queue targeted phishing... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Data Types (Score:5, Funny)
We had to convert it to hex in our heads and enter it on paper tape.
Re:Data Types (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Data Types (Score:3, Funny)
Re:CCRA (Score:3, Funny)
Canadian Revenue Agency Problem.
Poutine? (Score:3, Funny)
Being a US'ian, I am sure that is some kind of Canadian sexual reference.
Re:CCRA (Score:3, Funny)
Pfft, you're very optimistic this morning.
H&R queue (Score:3, Funny)
When CRA is back up H&R will send the backlog. So CRA will get days of traffic in a minute.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
Re:H&R queue (Score:2, Funny)