“…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.
Murray said that on Monday, 20 April, the organisation informed the government that they had identified its data being advertised for sale by several sellers on Alibaba’s e-commerce platforms in China.
“Biobank told us that three listings that appear to sell UK Biobank participant data had been identified. At least one of these three datasets appears to contain data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers,” Murray added…”