Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services Data Breach (2016)

A former employee of D.C.'s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing the identities of young people in order to file false income tax returns. Marc A. Bell, 49, of Bowie, Maryland, worked as a program manager, program officer and placement expeditor from 2005 to 2013 at DYRS, which provides supervision, cutody and care for youth charged with delinquent acts. He admitted getting the personal information of at least then-current and former DYRS youth from the agency's database between 2010 and 2013 and giving it to others, who used the names and Social Security numbers to filed more than 1,000 tax returns claiming $4,441,194 in refunds, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.