hrblock.com Site Back Up, but Some Data Lost

hrblock.com's woes continue.

The online tax-preparation portion of the site came back online Monday after a five-day outage, says Linda McDougall, H&R Block's (HRB Quote) vice president of communications. But some of the taxpayers' data have been lost.

Any data entered into the site's online forms between 8 p.m. EST on Feb. 11 and 11 a.m. on Feb. 14 were "taken offline," according to hrblock.com's Web site. Company officials say they don't know how many customers were affected. ...