Computer Data on 103,000 Va. Adult Ed Students Misplaced - washingtonpost.com: "A Virginia Education Department employee handed off a two-gigabyte flash drive that was not encrypted during a Sept. 21 meeting in Richmond to a representative of Virginia Tech's Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming. The information was to be used for federally mandated research.
The flash drive was reported missing the next day. It contained personal information for all students who finished an adult education course in Virginia from April 2007 through June 2009 or who passed a high school equivalency test between January 2001 and June 2009.
Pyle said it is against agency policy to transfer sensitive information without encrypting it."
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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