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The Post Office did not understand the scale of the Horizon scandal until "months and years" after a compensation scheme was set up following its defeat in the High Court in 2019, according to the Department of Business and Trade (DBT).
Summary
Despite the Post Office’s constant claims of the number users of Horizon and transactions completed daily, often cited when campaigners and journalists challenged the system's robustness, it only thought a few hundred people would make claims for losses. The claim came in the latest Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report looking at government compensation schemes.
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KazaSec's take
Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself, they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.
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