Consumer Apps · Finance/Tax · Private litigation + Data breach
TurboTax (Intuit)
Headline
A data-breach class action reportedly filed July 1, 2024 in California federal court (case number and current status not verified as of Oct 2026; complaint not retrieved) alleges that, after unauthorized access to…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
A data-breach class action reportedly filed July 1, 2024 in California federal court (case number and current status not verified as of Oct 2026; complaint not retrieved) alleges that, after unauthorized access to Intuit accounts between December 2023 and February 2024, the named plaintiff received a fraudulent letter impersonating the IRS that contained his Social Security number and the amount he owed on his 2023 taxes (allegations only, per secondary reporting). Reporting in 2026 described three separate categories of TurboTax lawsuits (free-filing deception, tax-fraud facilitation, and privacy violations); Intuit's own FY2026 Form 10-K (Sept. 2026) discloses only the free-filing matters, including an Ontario class action certified July 24, 2026, so the status of the other two was not verified, and the confusion has spawned a wave of social-media scams: fake TikTok and Facebook posts promise an immediate '$2,500 TurboTax payout' — a figure that traces to plaintiff-side estimates that individual privacy/tracking arbitration claims 'may be worth up to $2,500' per claimant, not money anyone can actually claim right now.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Case status. Private litigation; no sources are on file yet, so no legal tier is assigned.
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected.
Data sharing
Separate, still-early-stage class actions allege TurboTax shared user data with advertisers (no approved settlement as of Feb 2026); a Canadian class action (Foreman & Company v. Intuit, filed May 2025) is separately gaining momentum as more taxpayers report notices from the Canada Revenue Agency.
Fees and billing
A $141 MILLION MULTISTATE SETTLEMENT (May 2022; all 50 states and DC, led by New York) plus a SEPARATE, LITIGATED FTC administrative case (complaint March 2022; final order January 2024) — both over Intuit's years-long 'free, free, free' advertising campaign for TurboTax Free Edition, which excluded roughly two-thirds of filers (gig workers with 1099 income, student-loan-interest filers, even simple unemployment income) who were then upsold mid-filing to paid products costing $60–$120. ~4.4 million consumers received ~$30 checks. MAJOR 2026 LEGAL TWIST: the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals VACATED the FTC's related 20-year cease-and-desist order on March 20, 2026 (No. 24-60040), ruling (applying the Supreme Court's SEC v. Jarkesy decision) that deceptive-advertising claims share a common core with common-law fraud and so must be adjudicated in an Article III federal court, NOT decided internally by the FTC's own administrative law judges — a major, still-unresolved separation-of-powers ruling that could reshape how the FTC enforces consumer protection law against many other companies in this audit going forward, not just Intuit.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy turbotax.intuit.com/privacy-security | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service turbotax.intuit.com/legal/terms-of-service | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.
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Same parent: Intuit Inc.
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