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...
By Mark Sweney · The Guardian World
ICO reprimands company over accidental publishing of data about people caught up in Horizon IT scandal Business live – latest updates The 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 operators it had been pursuing during the Horizon IT scandal. 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. Continue reading...