Post Office avoids fine over leak of wrongfully convicted operators’ names
ICO reprimands company over accidental publishing of data about people caught up in Horizon IT scandalBusiness live – latest updatesThe Post Office has avoided a fine over a data breach that resulted in the mistaken online publication of the names and addresses of more than 500 post office...
<p>ICO reprimands company over accidental publishing of data about people caught up in Horizon IT scandal</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/dec/03/thames-water-profits-surge-higher-bills-prada-buys-versace-for-14bn-business-live-news">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>The Post Office has avoided a fine over a data breach that resulted in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/20/post-office-accidentally-leaks-names-and-addresses-of-wrongfully-convicted-operators">mistaken online publication</a> of the names and addresses of more than 500 post office operators it had been pursuing during the Horizon IT scandal.</p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reprimanded the Post Office over the breach, in which the company’s press office accidentally published an unredacted version of a legal settlement document with the operators on its website.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/03/post-office-data-breach-ico-reprimand">Continue reading...</a>
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