Apparently this is a big scandal in the UK, but I never heard about it until I ran across this story in a Japanese paper.
After the Post Office rolled out the Horizon information technology system, developed by Japanese company Fujitsu, in 1999 to automate sales accounting, local Post Office managers began finding unexplained losses they were responsible to cover.
The state-owned Post Office maintained Horizon was reliable and accused branch managers of dishonesty. Between 2000 and 2014, around 900 postal workers were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting, with some going to prison and others forced into bankruptcy.
This story has been perculating for years in the UK but a recent miniseries is what has brought the scandal to a head.
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