How safe it the Revenue IT system from attack by hackers?

OK, this is all fantasy. If you know what you want, you make a severe threat to the person who has access to the asset, or to their spouse, child, or other family member, and they will provide it to you, assuming it is accessisble by a single person. I was told this decades ago while attending a public service seminar on IT security. I doubt things have changed since then, unless access to the asset is blocked by the access control mechanism.
 
In the current world (2026 not 2005) with AI i think we're going to see a lot of sensitive information hacked. It's interesting how 20 years changes a thread. The Australian Medical records were recently broken into and this isn't going to be the last.
To answer the title of the original post, yes I wouldn't be surprised if Irish Revenue was hacked.
 
Henny Penny said:
Our IT consultant was at an internet security conference in Dublin hosted by microsoft. They had a guy there from MS who had been a hacker and now works for MS (probably a condition of parole!) ... anyhow to cut a long story short, he asked someone to volenteer a URL for example purposes. A lady from the revenue commissioners stood up and told the room about how much money the revenue has spent on upgrading and securing their site. It took the demonstator 4 minutes to get in.

Can you feel confident filing your tax returns on line?
If you were the subject of a DIRT or similar inquiry, would it not pay you to employ this man to delete you from the revenue database?
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if this happened it was staged demonstration..
 
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