Breaking Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world’s most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.
The organization confirmed the data on roughly half a million volunteers was anonymized, but could not guarantee it would be impossible to identify individuals if it fell into the wrong hands.
The revelation came from UK technology minister Ian Murray speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, with his comments delivered at the same time as Biobank confirming the data mishap. ®
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