'Urgent' probe | Post Office investigating after publishing names & addresses of 500+ sub-postmasters online

The Post Office has launched an urgent investigation after the names and addresses of hundreds of Post Office operators were published on its website. 

The personal details of 555 people were accidentally uploaded to the company’s corporate website. They have since been removed. The Post Office has also referred itself to the UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), over the data breach.

The people whose details were leaked had been involved in suing the Post Office in a high court lawsuit in 2019, which led the way for wrongful convictions of theft to be overturned - leading then to the Horizon IT inquiry.

“The document in question has been removed from our website. We are investigating as an urgent priority how it came to be published” the Post Office said.