At this point people assume everything is a scam, everything is "compromised", and everyone except the "little guy" is in on it. It's really silly. You might as well also claim that the IRS has moles inside of Microsoft and is compromised which is why they're going to get this $27 billion in owed payments and investors had no idea!

Better yet, the IRS and Microsoft are working together on a secret AI tax scheme and this is a cover-up for transferring large amounts of funds to the IRS or to Microsoft for the program to work.

I don't think it needs to be "moles"

There are tons of "Expert networks" companies where they tap key personnel for market info. I have received these sort of inquiries many times in the past. Hedge Funds are major users of these.

I can easily see the line of inquiry not breaking the law but getting close enough to extrapolate information on the companies being targeted (IRS personnel, for example), without outright naming them.

This is kind of digital fingerprinting, but for companies. You don't may never get the name of the company, but at some point the questions become so specific that shoe will only fit 1-2 companies.

How many companies have personnel primarily in the US, HQ in Ireland, have revenues >1B, and sell operating systems as a primary source of revenue ?