"Flash drive with Boston students ID information lost; Probably dropped by vendor of school identity badges" by Matt Rocheleau | Globe Correspondent, August 14, 2013
A vendor contracted by the Boston public school system to print student identification badges lost a flash drive containing data on 21,000 middle and high school students, forcing the school system to redesign the badges to prevent the lost data from being misused, officials said.
The lost drive included students’ names, ages, grades, and ID numbers on files that are used to print OneCards, the school system’s student identification badges, officials said. The drive did not contain student addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, or birth dates.
School officials said the data was lost last week by vendor, Plastic Card Systems Inc. of Northborough. School officials began notifying parents by letters and automated phone calls Monday, after a frantic weekend of searching....
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