During the afternoon of Monday, information about a possible began to circulate among tax experts hacking of the internal tax service platform (SII). Given that situation, the service you direct Javier Etcheberry a statement rose to its page warning of the situation, which was later sent to the press.
“Given the circulation of a false email that tries to supplant institutional messaging, the Internal Revenue Service (SII) calls all taxpayers to have the maximum caution against this type of communications,” the SII statement began pointing out.
He explained that “the mail that is in circulation refers to an alleged process of closing order and incorporates a link to consult more information.” Therefore, they ask “people who have received an email similar to the image, who proceed to their elimination.”
In his message, the agency emphasized that “by institutional policy, the SII will never send texts with links of download or addressed to other websites, you will not request information or ask for personal keys from taxpayers. ”
And reiterated that “In case of receiving emails with these characteristics, with links and accesses, We recommend not to enter the links it contains, since what is sought is to obtain personal data or damage your computers, both being constitutive of crime. ”
Given this situation, experts’ criticism were not waiting. One of them was the president of the Tax Commission of the College of Accountants, Juan Alberto Pizarrowho called the service to make greater investments in technology on its website.
“Clearly, more than maintenance and patches to the platform, a strong investment in new systems that guarantee continuity, stability and safety of the SII platform is required, with the highest international standards. We have seen weakness of the platform not only in critical periods such as Operation Income, but also in monthly processes such as VAT, where they have even had to expand deadlines, ”said Pizarro.
Christian del Corto, Consulting Partner and Tax Compliance of CCL Auditors Consultores, Delivery more background on what happened: “Unlike other opportunities, we understand that They had access to the contacts for notifications that were registered on the SII page and just those people are arriving these contact mails, which contain a malware to take mastery of the equipment or steal sensitive data so we suggest that email is deleted from the entrance trays ”.
For Delcorto, “the big difference between this communication and other false emails that have existed in the past, is that in this case the address of the mail and the contact presumably reached the contact base that appears inside the SII, therefore, many taxpayers through their legal representatives received the communication in a massive way, so it can be glimpsed that it is not only an email that is made through a SII account.”
