Hackers Claim Elaborate Heist of Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns, Want $1 Million

 According to New York Magazine’s Joe Coscarelli anonymous-affiliated hackers have come out with their second dubious security breach of the week, alleging they obtained Mitt Romney's top-secret tax returns from the firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to entirely unsubstantiated and sloppily written documents, the records were stolen, like in a Bourne movie, "by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the [PwC] building. Once on the 3rd floor, the team moved down the stairs to the 2nd floor and setup shop in an empty office room. During the night, suite 260 was entered, and all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied." 

The imaginative hackers want $1 million, payable in the Internet currency Bitcoins, to either rush the (supposedly) imminent release of the documents or keep them private.

.....PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a statement, "There is no evidence that our systems have been compromised or that there was any unauthorized access to the data in question," the company did note, "We are working closely with the United States Secret Service….."

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