DSHS Employee Sentenced for Selling Data
- July 19, 2011
- by ServeNow.com Staff
- In the News
TACOMA, WA -- Thevy Plom, a former Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) employee, has been sentenced to three years of monitored release and 21 months in jail for selling private information from a Washington Employment Security Department database. Plom was convicted of selling the information over 10 years for a profit of $108,000. The data of about 1,000 individuals were compromised by Plom's actions. Plom allegedly sold the information to process servers, PIs, and others. Process servers and other clients used the information to track people and to help with process of service and debt collection.
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