Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: 'horrific' potential data breach

Perhaps the legal advice to PO execs facing charges is "feign incompetance" ...

Or no feint necessary. "Continue to do your incompetent best".

And still despite admitting the act, the PO has made no apology apparently.

Even if fined, won't the uk taxpayers be on the hook?

Yes, unless there's a Czech billionaire to pick up the tab https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/ar...

The Post Office is separate from Royal Mail. The two were separated when Royal Mail was privatised in 2013. The Post Office is still in the public sector.

Understood, hence "unless".

Related: "Horizon IT scandal investigator tells inquiry Post Office was ‘sabotaging our efforts’" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/18/post...

> He said by February 2015 he no longer believed the Post Office was taking Second Sight’s concerns about the Horizon IT system seriously. “I felt we were dealing with a cover-up by POL and possibly a criminal conspiracy,” he said.

Now the BBC reports this was an accident, without substantiation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd110nl7dppo

“I’m not technical” …