🚨 BREAKING: Confidential health data of 500,000 UK Biobank participants have been listed for sale in China.
Technology Minister Ian Murray confirmed the breach to the House of Commons this morning.
One of Britain’s landmark scientific programmes and half a million volunteers who trusted the system.
It has collected intimate details - including whole body scans, #DNA sequences and their medical records - from hundreds of thousands of volunteers for over two decades. The project has led to more than 18,000 scientific publications.
⏩⏩ This is exactly why we need Bio-banks on the #Blockchain.
The British Blockchain Association has been advocating for #genetic and #bio-bank data to be secured via distributed ledger technology since 2018. Our peer-reviewed evidence base, published in the JBBA, sets out the architecture:
→ Tamper-evident audit trails
→ Patient-controlled consent
→ Cryptographic access logs
→ Immutable provenance
Centralised repositories of sensitive biological data are systemically fragile. The question was never if they would be breached - only when.
Swipe through for the evidence base ↓
#Blockchain #HealthData #UKBiobank #GenomicSecurity #JBBA #BBA #DataSovereignty #EvidenceBasedPolicy
Technology Minister Ian Murray confirmed the breach to the House of Commons this morning.
One of Britain’s landmark scientific programmes and half a million volunteers who trusted the system.
It has collected intimate details - including whole body scans, #DNA sequences and their medical records - from hundreds of thousands of volunteers for over two decades. The project has led to more than 18,000 scientific publications.
⏩⏩ This is exactly why we need Bio-banks on the #Blockchain.
The British Blockchain Association has been advocating for #genetic and #bio-bank data to be secured via distributed ledger technology since 2018. Our peer-reviewed evidence base, published in the JBBA, sets out the architecture:
→ Tamper-evident audit trails
→ Patient-controlled consent
→ Cryptographic access logs
→ Immutable provenance
Centralised repositories of sensitive biological data are systemically fragile. The question was never if they would be breached - only when.
Swipe through for the evidence base ↓
#Blockchain #HealthData #UKBiobank #GenomicSecurity #JBBA #BBA #DataSovereignty #EvidenceBasedPolicy