The Fujitsu U.K. Post Office scandal, explained
For weeks, the U.K. has been gripped by the Post Office Horizon scandal. And now, as the rest of the world begins to pay attention to the odd incident caused by a tech glitch, more people are asking: What the hell is going on?Here’s a quick guide to this wild, and ongoing, saga.What went wrong at the Post Office?Between 1999 and 2015, glitches in accounting software used by the U.K. Post Office meant that large amounts of money appeared to go missing from more than 700 post offices. Post Office Limited, the private…