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Marta Iraola Iribarren

Medical data from 500,000 UK volunteers advertised for sale on a Chinese website

Health information belonging to 500,000 people in the United Kingdom has been stolen and offered for sale on the Chinese website Alibaba, the UK’s technology minister Ian Murray has confirmed.

The medical data comes from participants of UK Biobank, the world's most comprehensive dataset of biological, health, and lifestyle information, compiled from volunteers and used by scientists across the world for research.

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