The drive was lost late last month and no one seems to have found it yet. The drive holds records for 103,000 people who completed adult education classes in Virginia recently. A Virginia Education Department employee handed off an un-encrypted two-gigabyte flash drive 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. It is against agency policy to transfer sensitive information without encrypting it.
Source: https://threatpost.com/virginia-loses-records-103000-adult-education-students-101409/72331/