Hard drive with students' addresses, grades vanishes

An external hard drive containing personal information on as many as 1,234 Prince William County elementary school students has disappeared, prompting investigations by the school system and the police department. The hardware housed names and addresses of Glenkirk Elementary students, as well as the names of their classroom teachers. It also stored grades students had received and screening information for student services.

“It’s very sad, actually, that somebody would steal something like that,” said Suzanne Obetz, president of the Gainesville school’s parent-teacher organization.