investigations with a criminal investigation to be sensitive to these investigations for the witnesses and dennis zine of those limitations as fully and candidly as possible. from there i will turn to senator widen for his remarks ; forward to working with you and all other colleagues in a bipartisan concern for this committee. >> three months ago the finance committee met in a hearing with the updated -- with the latest scams plinking taxpayers. and i said then that that wave of attacks sure looks to me like organized crime. today after 104,000 tax returns that appears to be a sophisticated organized crime syndicate. if it continues to spiral with hackers targeting federal agencies including my own and private companies to steal money and a data. one report from the department of common security says the computer systems, under attack hundreds of times a day, and tens of thousands of times per year. the investigation of the stolen tax returns is ongoing as of this morning but once again it seems the thieves are a step ahead of the authority to have access to a enormous amounts of data said that is se