Blair Sterba-Boatwright, chairman of the mathematics department at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, recently misplaced a flash drive that may have contained the Social Security numbers of many of the university’s students.
Under normal circumstances, the professor might have scoured his office or rifled through the papers on his desk at home. But this time, finding the flash drive will be a bit trickier: The device, it seems, is somewhere in Madagascar.
According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Mr. Sterba-Boatwright lost the drive at some point during a two-week vacation on the African island. Campus officials say it’s not clear whether the professor violated university policy by taking the device on a personal trip, but they have gone ahead and notified the students whose personal information may have been exposed. —Brock Read
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