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Employers know a lot more about you than you know about them. Anyone with access to your human resources file has your name, address, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number, place of birth, credit history, work history, salary history and physical description.

But who are these people who hold all that information about you? If you’re unfortunate enough to be an employee of the Library of Congress, one of those people was William Sinclair.

Sinclair, a former personnel executive, was charged by information this week for using the library’s payroll records to steal at least 10 employees’ identities. He then passed the employee information to Labiska Gibbs, his cousin, who used it to obtain credit cards.

And then the cousins went shopping. The two charged more than $38,000 to the newly minted credit cards, according to court documents.

Sinclair could receive up to 20 years in prison if he’s convicted. Gibbs is looking at as much as 37 years behind bars because she was the one who actually obtained the fraudulent credit cards.

Your personal information lives a life of its own in hundreds of databases. Schools, employers, creditors, health-care providers, hospitals, marketers, cities, counties, states, nations—they all have your information. Don’t you ever wonder what they do with it, who has access to it or how they safeguard it?

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A Denver grand jury indicted five defendants last week in an identity theft crime ring. Shadwick Weaver, the ringleader, is in custody and being held on $500,000 bond. Weaver has been indicted on 65 counts. Three of the others indicted by the grand jury are also in custody; a fifth defendant is at large.

During a joint investigation by the economic crimes units of the Aurora Police Department and the Denver District Attorney’s office, detectives discovered almost 300 fraudulent IDs, employee IDs, and counterfeit checks and credit cards.

They also discovered dozens of victims that include merchants and individuals who lost thousands of dollars. The crime ring targeted grocery stores, hotels and liquor stores and used what they called “temporary credit cards”—cards the thieves made that had no magnetic strips. When clerks asked about the unusual cards, Weaver and the others explained they had been issued temporary cards and would then manually enter stolen credit card numbers on the merchants’ credit card keypads.

Investigators have linked the defendants to methamphetamine trafficking, which they believe was funded by the identity thefts. Financial and personal information was obtained by breaking into cars and burglarizing homes and businesses.

Charges against the five include theft, identity theft, forgery and conspiracy to commit theft, conspiracy to commit identity theft, conspiracy to commit forgery and conspiracy to commit computer crime.

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