No evidence of information leak / Probe finds 'discrepancies' in People First security
Source: By Bill Cotterell, Tallahassee Democrat (FL), January 19, 2007
A special investigation of Florida state employee personnel data that a computer subcontractor shipped to India found ''significant discrepancies'' in security Thursday, but no evidence that personal information has leaked out of the People First system. Department of Management Services Secretary Linda South called ex-Gov. Jeb Bush's most ambitious privatization project ''an ugly pig'' that she will have to make the most of, since there is no prospect of returning state personnel services back to government. ….. South conceded, though, that subcontractors in India had such lax hiring practices and security standards, it is all but impossible to know if someone nabbed for identity theft once worked for one of those firms. ''Security protocols of the companies that this was outsourced to are dismal,'' she said in an interview