Post Office scandal: Software company faces questions over remote access

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The inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal has heard that Fujitsu employees could remotely access postmasters' accounts as early as 2002.

Staff at the Japanese software company could change the accounts of sub-postmasters without them knowing.

The company had originally said its employees did not have access to accounts.

More than 700 Post Office sub-postmasters were prosecuted after a faulty computer system made it look like money was missing.

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has written to Fujitsu to demand talks on compensation.

Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/post-office-scandal-fujitsu-admits-it-was-involved-from-the-very-start-and-helped-prosecute-sub-postmasters-13048987

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