Security News > 2024 > January > DHS employees jailed for stealing data of 200K U.S. govt workers
Three former Department of Homeland Security employees were sentenced to prison for stealing proprietary U.S. government software and databases containing the personal data of 200,000 federal employees.
The three individuals are Charles K. Edwards, a former Acting Inspector General of the DHS Office of Inspector General, sentenced to 1.5 years in prison; Sonal Patel, a member of the department IT staff, sentenced to 2 years of probation; and Murali Y. Venkata, also from the IT department, sentenced to 4 months in prison.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice announcement, the three were previously employed at the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, where they conspired to steal proprietary U.S. software and databases.
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