Half a million Britons’ medical data were offered for sale on Alibaba in major UK Biobank breach

Harry Taylor reports: Data from 500,000 people who volunteered their health information to the UK Biobank has been breached and offered for sale online in China. Technology Minister Ian Murray said that information of all half a million members had been listed for sale on the website Alibaba, as he called the breach an “unacceptable abuse” of data. He... Source

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