{"id":22835,"date":"2026-04-23T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/private-health-records-of-half-a-million-britons-offered-for-sale-on-chinese-website\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:37:37","slug":"private-health-records-of-half-a-million-britons-offered-for-sale-on-chinese-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/private-health-records-of-half-a-million-britons-offered-for-sale-on-chinese-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology minister tells Commons \u2018de-identified\u2019 information from UK Biobank advertised for sale on Alibaba<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/apr\/23\/keir-starmer-peter-mandelson-vetting-cat-little-olly-robbins-vet-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The confidential health records of half a million British volunteers have been offered for sale on Chinese website Alibaba, the UK government has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The data, belonging to participants in the UK Biobank project, was found for sale on three separate listings last week. The records have now been removed and it is not believed any sales were made.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/23\/private-health-records-uk-biobank-chinese-website-alibaba\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/979f494583a10b9c22377018913aa0371ad80ca8\/292_0_2917_2333\/master\/2917.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d560f24e99541f3f36bda56b38511f68\" title=\"Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website\" \/>Technology minister tells Commons \u2018de-identified\u2019 information from UK Biobank advertised for sale on Alibaba<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe confidential health records of half a million British volunteers have been offered for sale on Chinese website Alibaba, the UK government has confirmed.<br \/>\nThe data, belonging to participants in the UK Biobank project, was found for sale on three separate listings last week. The records have now been removed and it is not believed any sales were made. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology minister tells Commons \u2018de-identified\u2019 information from UK Biobank advertised for sale on Alibaba UK politics live \u2013 latest updates The confidential health records of half a million British volunteers have been offered for sale on Chinese website Alibaba, the UK government has confirmed. The data, belonging to participants in the UK Biobank project, was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/private-health-records-of-half-a-million-britons-offered-for-sale-on-chinese-website\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}