Confidential UK Biobank health records exposed online
Confidential health records from the UK Biobank project were exposed online. The timing and scale of the exposure, its cause and the response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- UK Biobank
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Confidential health records
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United Kingdom
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Timeline
- It came to light that confidential health records from the UK Biobank project had been exposed online.
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