Medical data of half a million British volunteers put up for sale on Chinese website, says UK govt
The confidential health data of around 500,000 British volunteers linked to UK Biobank appeared for sale on the Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba, said UK government on Thursday.
UK Technology Minister Ian Murray told Parliament that three listings offering Biobank data surfaced online last week. Authorities removed the listings before any purchase occurred. Officials said the datasets appeared to include information from the entire pool of 500,000 participants.
