An employee of Florida’s Department of Children and Family Services has been charged with leaking personal data to a half dozen others as part of an organized fraud ring.

The Miami-based employee leaked information to people who then made more than $250,000 worth of purchases in the Sarasota

According to the Sarasota County Sheriffs Office, the data breach affected nearly 2,000 residents statewide.

All but one of the eight involved have previous criminal records and all hail from the Miami area originally.