UK Biobank Health Data Keeps Ending Up on GitHub — Researcher Documents Persistent Leaks

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A security researcher documented how UK Biobank health data — one of the world's most sensitive biomedical datasets covering 500K participants — keeps appearing in public GitHub repositories. The research site biobank.rocher.lc catalogs the persistent exposure pattern. The story overlaps with a separate BBC report that UK Biobank data was found listed for sale in China, which the UK government has confirmed. 133 points on HN.