Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects. UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, is one of the world’s most comprehensive stores of health information and is credited with driving...

By Hannah Devlin and Tom Burgis