UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters (ibtimes.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:38AM from the we-thought-they-were-your-friends dept.

Ewan Palmer writes: The UK's biggest online pharmacy has been fined $200,000 for selling thousands of patients' personal data to scammers who targeted the sick and vulnerable. Pharmacy2U (P2U) was found to have breached the Data Protection Act for giving away details of patients to Australian Lottery fraudsters who targeted male pensioners and health supplements company that has been cautioned for misleading advertising. A company who dealt with patients who were being marketed said they had 'no idea the trade in their data was as murky as this'.

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Re:if you can't protect it, don't collect it by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 01:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

This wasn't a hacking, it was SOLD to fraudsters
In the UK? by YrWrstNtmr · 2015-10-20 03:49 · Score: 3, Insightful

Interesting. We are continually told that UK/EU data protection laws are sooo much better than in the US and elsewhere, and this type of thing can never happen.