A person close to Coinbase, who was not authorized to
speak for attribution, confirmed to Fortune the company and the IRS have been in talks, but also expressed surprise the agency has so far refused to narrow its demands.
The person, who was not authorized to
speak for attribution, said the office regularly hears from companies that are victims of similar phishing swindles involving fake suppliers, but the Facebook case stood out for its scale.
«They want to make sure that everyone is comfortable having the museums here, so security is multiplied by one hundred times what it is in Europe,» a contractor told me, refusing to
speak for attribution.
No one close to the estate was willing to
speak for attribution.