Lost flash drive compromises data for thousands of students

[Lee J <lee () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.scmagazine.com/lost-flash-drive-compromises-data-for-thousands-of-students/article/307298/

More than 20,000 students across 36 schools in the Boston Public School
(BPS) system had their data
compromised<http://www.scmagazine.com//search/data+breach/> when
the district's ID card vendor Plastic Card Systems lost a flash drive
containing the information.

*How many victims?* 21,054 students.

*What type of personal information?* Names, schools, ages, grades, ID
numbers, library card numbers and CharlieCard numbers (used on smartcards
to pay for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority travel). ID photos
for roughly 14,000 students also were included on the flash drive.

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