The Boston Public Schools is changing the design of Boston OneCard student ID badges, changing MBTA CharlieCard assignments and is changing library card numbers for students following a vendor’s loss of a flash drive that contained badge sticker images Friday afternoon. The vendor, Northborough-based Plastic Card Systems, is contracted to create OneCard ID badges for the upcoming school year.
The drive lost by the vendor contains .pdf images that are used to print 21,054 student ID badges for students across 36 schools – which include high schools and some middle schools that span grades 6-12. Elementary schools, K-8 schools and stand-alone middle schools are not affected. Plastic Card Systems reported the company could not find the drive after picking it up from BPS on Friday afternoon. Searches Friday night and over the weekend were not successful.
Source: http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/view/bps-changes-student-id-badges-prevent-unauthorized-use-after-vendor-loses-drive-containing-imag