Medical knowledge of half one million Britons listed on the market on Chinese web site

The medical knowledge of half one million volunteers to Biobank, the UK’s well being data database, has been provided on the market on-line, the federal government has mentioned.

Technology minister Ian Murray advised the Commons, the charity had advised the federal government the info "had been advertised for sale by several sellers on Alibaba’s ecommerce platforms in China".

He added the charity had mentioned the info "did not contain participants, names, addresses, contact details or telephone numbers".

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