"Insiders Accused of Stealing Personal Data From Homeland Security WASHINGTON — It was an audacious scheme: an attempted inside job at the office of a federal watchdog agency, where the cops, the authorities said, became the robbers. Three employees in the inspector general’s office for the Department of Homeland Security stole a computer system that contained sensitive personal information of about 246,000 agency employees, according to three United States officials and a report sent to Congress last week. They planned to modify the office’s proprietary software for managing investigative and disciplinary cases so that they could market and sell it to other inspector general offices across the federal government. The personal information included names, social security numbers and dates of birth..." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/us/politics/homeland-security-personal-data-software-stolen.html The DHS Office of Inspector General: "What We Do Mission: The OIG conducts and supervises independent audits, investigations, and inspections of the programs and operations of DHS, and recommends ways for DHS to carry out its responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible. We also seek to deter, identify and address fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and waste of taxpayer funds invested in Homeland Security...." "https://www.oig.dhs.gov/about
