The details of 500,000 volunteers of UK health information database Biobank have been hacked and put up for sale on a Chinese website. 😮

I read that it was offered for sale but was not sold.

Thanks twadle for the update.

I read in the papers today that UK Biobank was not hacked. What happened is that individual researchers at three research institutes in China, illegally tried to sell off data they legally received from BioBank, for specific research purposes.

The BioBank contract explicitly bans this - and these institutes will certainly receive no more material from BioBank

Thhe full story can be read on page 10 of today's copy of the Observer.

The main thing is the BioBank was not hacked. It was employees of approved. checked and contracted research institutes, breaking the terms of the contract and trying to mntise the dats. The British and Chinese government uickly worked together to make sure that the listings of the data were taken down and unavailable.

Thank you for that, MOnica. That's what I tried to explain and exactly what's happened. The important thing is that Biobank has not been hacked, despite the melodramatic headlines.

Not only was it not hacked but the data was not sold.

Sorry I repeated the information you had just given Twaddle

M0nica

Sorry I repeated the information you had just given Twaddle

No need to apologise.

Good to hear that. Thanks GNs.