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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Holly Evans

Ministers told British public must be better protected after UK Biobank breach

Ministers have been urged to do more to protect the public after data from 500,000 people who volunteered their health information to the UK Biobank was breached and offered for sale online in China.

Information of all half a million members had been listed for sale on the website Alibaba, said science minister Ian Murray, as he called the incident an “unacceptable abuse” of data.

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