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To do that, they took sensitive data from their workplaces, without knowledge or permission of their superiors.

Some of the databases they shared contained thepersonal dataof 200,000 federal employees.

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Postal Service Office of Inspector General, where the three had worked previously.

Venkata also allegedly tried to destroy the evidence, by deleting all communications with the Indian developers.

Pursuing the Indian developers involved in the incident is also highly unlikely.

ViaBleepingComputer

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