article_snippet: Government employees have been caught stealing students' personal information to apply for loans, credit cards and set up new cell phone accounts,Daily Mail Online has learned.
article_snippet: Reports on breaches of staff conduct inside the Department of Education shows how workers stole social security numbers from a database while a man was fired for trying to look up President Barack Obama’s student loan records.
article_snippet: Reports from the Department of Education revealed officials tried to steal social security numbers from a database while another was disciplined for trying to look up President Obama’s student loans .
article_snippet: According to the documents - obtained by the Daily Mail Online through a Freedom of Information Act request - a number of government employees set up an illicit scheme to steal students' information.
article_snippet: One of the documents related to One woman case reads: 'It appears [the employee] did not have a business reason to run either name in the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS).'
article_snippet: Obama’s student loans records.
article_snippet: It is not clear why The unidentified employee tried to access Obama’s student loans records as Obama has made the majority of The unidentified employee financial history public knowledge.
article_snippet: The unidentified employee paid off The unidentified employee student loans in in 2004 while The unidentified employee was in the Illinois State Senate.
article_snippet: The unidentified employee took out $42,753 in loans to pay for The unidentified employee Harvard Law School tuition while Michelle applied for $40,762 in loans for Michelle Harvard Law education.
highlights_snippet: One employee used students' personal information to apply for a loan .
  
highlights_snippet: Another government employee lost Another government employee job for trying to access Obama's student loan files in 2011 .
  