What can happen if your accounting software doesn't do the maths correctly (and you can wait 20+ years)... Nine hundred wrongly convicted British post office workers are on their way to getting justice following a public apology from the company that provided the faulty technology that led to their false convictions. Fujitsu director apologises for British Post Office scandal that saw 900 workers wrongly convicted. The British Post Office rolled out the Horizon information technology system, developed by Fujistu, in 1999 to automate sales accounting. Soon after, local post office managers began finding unexplained losses that they were responsible to cover. The state-owned Post Office took Fujistu's side, claiming that Horizon was reliable and that the branch managers were lying. 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. To date, a total of nearly 150 million pounds has been paid to more than 2,500 victims, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said. ...and there is now, from ITV, a four-part docudrama, "Mr. Bates vs the Post Office". Mr. Bates has spent nearly two decades trying to expose the scandal and exonerate his peers. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-17/british-post-office-scandal-fujitsu-a... cheers, Ian.