Post Office accidentally leaks names and addresses of wrongfully convicted operators

Company refers itself to data watchdog after publishing personal details of 555 people involved in Horizon IT lawsuit

The Post Office has launched an “urgent” investigation and referred itself to the UK’s data watchdog after it accidentally published the names and addresses of hundreds of post office operators on its corporate website.

The state-owned body published the personal details of 555 individuals who had been involved in suing the Post Office in a high court lawsuit in 2019 that paved the way for convicted post office operators to be exonerated by the courts.