UK BIOBANK BACK ONLINE SOON, MONTHS AFTER SOMEONE TRIED TO SELL 500K PEOPLE'S DATA ON ALIBABA

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UK Biobank says its Research Analysis Platform is secure and will reopen after government approval. The April attack led to data for all 500,000 volunteers being listed for sale on Alibaba. Access will return in phases: manual file review before downloads, no result downloads initially, 15-minute idle logouts with 2FA, isolated browsing, SSH removal, and CLI limits. Researchers must remove de-identified participant data from code repositories before regaining access.