WEBSITE DOWN: U.S. Federal Tax Payment System Hacked?

Want to stop paying Federal IRS taxes in the United States?

For a moment, the dream was becoming real as PayUSATax.com went down this week, apparently due to targeted hacking.

Let me back up for a minute and explain…

Yesterday, reports began to surface that the PayUSATax.com website was down.

And not just for a little bit….

Down as in crippled.

This was one of the first reports:

BREAKING: Reports beginning to circulate that A Russian DDOS attack via Hacker Group KillNet has taken out the US Federal Tax Payment System (Developing)

pic.twitter.com/fX6yYXU9MP

— HeadlineHunter!🚨U.S. (@HHunter_US) July 1, 2022

Some claimed the attack was from Russian hackers:

https://twitter.com/spook_info/status/1542870783176937473

Now I’m as pro-American as the next guy, but pro-Amerca does NOT mean pro-IRS.

If a Russian hacker wants to step in and disable the IRS, all I’m going to say is I don’t think I’ll be shedding a tear, thank you very much!

Here’s what it looked like when trying to access the website:

https://twitter.com/spook_info/status/1542870809475260417

More:

Wow. Russians hacked payUSAtax (US Federal Tax Payment System) https://t.co/xYL6VRNZN3

— Truth on Toast (@ToastieTruth) June 30, 2022

KillNet is laying into PayUSATax (@payUSAtax), one of the IRS approved vendors for paying your tax payments with a credit card, for their latest #DDoS attack. The site is currently offline. pic.twitter.com/x66L4itnv8

— Nicholas Carroll (@sloppy_bear) June 30, 2022

According to their website (after it was eventually restored — for now), PayUSATax is an Authorized IRS Payment Provider, and the IRS Logo appears prominently on the website.

Here’s what the homepage looks like: