Document titled 'Confidential Settlement Deed' was published.
The names and home addresses of the postmasters involved in the Horizon scandal have been accidentally leaked.
According to the Daily Mail, a dossier of 555 postmasters who were involved in suing the Post Office in 2019 was published in an open format.
A document titled 'Confidential Settlement Deed' and signed by the Post Office's own senior lawyer was published on the Post Office’s own website. Alerted by the newspaper, the Post Office removed the list.
The publication of the data coincided with the day Post Office IT specialists were being questioned by the inquiry.
In the Horizon incident, around 900 postmasters were accused of taking money from branch accounts - and saw some jailed - when the problem was caused by glitches in the Horizon computer system.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
