Two men, Matthew A. Akande from Mexico and Nigeria, and Kehinde Oyetunji from North Dakota and Nigeria, have been charged with conspiring to use stolen taxpayer information to file fraudulent tax returns. This follows an investigation by the FBI and the IRS. The charges are part of a larger case involving a significant data breach that affected AT&T, Ticketmaster, and over 150 other corporations. According to the Justice Department, the breach was facilitated by hacking a third-party cloud data storage service. The perpetrators reportedly used phishing emails to deceive at least five tax preparation firms in Massachusetts into downloading malware, which allowed them to collect personal taxpayer data from the firms' computers. Subsequently, the fraudsters filed bogus tax returns using the stolen identities, as stated by prosecutors. In a related case, a tax preparer in St. Louis was sentenced for filing $2.5 million in fraudulent returns.