""This has been an unacceptable abuse of the UK Biobank charity's data and an abuse of the trust that participants rightly expect when sharing their data for research purposes," Murray said in a statement to Parliament."
"UK Biobank has assured its volunteers that the data contained no participants' names, addresses, contact details, or telephone numbers. The charity does not believe that any of the data was sold."
"Murray said the UK government had worked quickly with Biobank, the Chinese government and Alibaba to take down the listings offering the data."
"Rory Collins, chief executive of Biobank, told volunteers in a statement that personally identifiable information (PII) was safe and that it would improve security."
A security breach at UK Biobank has led to the medical data of 500,000 British citizens being advertised for sale on Chinese e-commerce platforms. Technology minister Ian Murray condemned this as an unacceptable abuse of trust. UK Biobank, which collects and shares medical data for research, confirmed that the data sold was anonymized and did not include personally identifiable information. The charity has revoked access to the institutions responsible for the breach and is working on improving security measures.
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