How Software Bugs led to "One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice" in British History.

This article recounts the Fujitsu software system bugs that resulted in the incorrect criminal convictions of employees in the United Kingdom postal system. The article provides an overview of the software system, Horizon point-of-sale accounting software, and how inadequate coding and testing led t...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 12 - 15
Main Author:	Halper, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2025
Subjects:	Accounting software Software upgrades Postal workers Fujitsu Japan Ltd. Computer programming Postal service United Kingdom
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost