Chinese Scientists Breach UK Biobank, Sell Patient Data

0:00On April 25th, rogue sciences from three Chinese hospitals access medical data on 500,000 NHS patients through the UK Biobank, then tried selling it on Alibaba. That massive online marketplace like China's Amazon. They got in legitimately, but blame Britain's loose security rules for letting this happen with the identified info on health, age, lifestyle, and more. After this year, the government okayed sharing coded GP records with the Biobank despite MI5 warnings about Chinese interference risks. Chinese laws can force companies to hand over sensitive data. Sparking fears this could boost their biotech age or worse. Now politicians and security pros are fired up, with calls for a full inquiry into who approved access and ignored spy chiefs. Shadow Minister Alicia Kern slammed it as a gift to China that shatters public trust and handling intimate health details. UK Biobank has hit pause on global data access to stop more leaks, and while the sales

1:02listings got yanked before deals, experts say the info is still. Floating online for grabs, the 198th known exposure since last summer. Professor Rory Collins, the Biobank boss, apologized for the worry. This causes volunteers, but the push is on for tighter regs to protect this. Not mine of British health data from falling into the wrong hands.