Fujitsu staff had 'unrestricted' access to Post Office branch systems
Fujitsu staff had 'unrestricted and unaudited privileged access' to Post Office branch systems and could make changes without postmasters' knowledge
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Fujitsu staff had 'unrestricted and unaudited privileged access' to Post Office branch systems and could make changes without postmasters' knowledge
The IT giant's Horizon software is at the heart of the major miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted of fraud and theft.
A Fujitsu manager told a colleague tasked with presenting evidence in Post Office prosecutions that a sub-postmaster was a “nasty chap” intent on going “all out” to damage the company’s reputation, the Horizon IT Inquiry heard.
Fujitsu engineers could make changes to Post Office branch accounts without anyone knowing.