Canada: Personal data on 28,000 schoolchildren stolen

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/02/21/student-breach.html

A laptop computer holding a database with personal information on 
thousands of Newfoundland schoolchildren was among several stolen during a 
robbery, school officials said Thursday.

The database . with information on 28,000 students, most in the St. John's 
area - includes names, addresses, medicare numbers, phone numbers and the 
names of guardians, the Eastern School District board said in a statement.

The four laptops were stolen from the district's offices in Atlantic 
Place, an office complex in downtown St. John's.

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