The data bank which contains medical data of 500,000 people said no personally identifiable information had been hacked.

Longitudinal studies are a research jewel, shedding light on motor neurone disease, cot deaths, Alzheimer’s and more. Don’t let the security breach in China put you off joining one One thing Britain ...

Professor Sir Rory Collins said he was "angry" and "upset" about the incident, as both the bank's boss and a participant.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed to provide £8 million ($10.3m) in cloud computing storage credits to biomedical database UK Biobank. This will be matched by the UK government, bringing the total ...

Patrick Vallance says government working with Chinese officials to remove postings from Alibaba after Biobank data breach last week ...

Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants was found listed for sale online in China, raising concerns over research access misuse and data security. The UK government has confirmed that ...

A vast tranche of new UK Biobank genetic data becomes available to health researchers today, offering an unprecedented resource to enhance understanding of human biology and aid in therapeutic ...

There is an accompanying press briefing being hosted by the Science Media Centre in the UK. Please contact UK Biobank for the details. In a remarkable achievement that is already impacting how we ...

The UK Biobank has refuted claims that members of a 'race science' network have accessed sensitive health information from its extensive biomedical database. The UK Biobank has refuted claims that ...