Chinese firm got Covid contract despite trying to hack NHS data, minister says

Chinese firm got Covid contract despite trying to hack NHS data, minister says China’s leading genomics research company was given a Covid testing contract in the UK despite ministers knowing it had repeatedly sought to hack into the NHS’s genetic datacentre, a government minister has said.

The BGI Group was making multiple attempts every week to “hack” into Genomics England in 2014, George Freeman, a minister for science, innovation and technology, revealed to MPs, and is said to remain a “danger”. The Guardian

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