Some context: Babylon is a (US owned) health conglomorate that has come under a lot of flack lately in the UK for:
(a) promoting a "Virtual assistant doctor" -- glorified series of 20 questions -- that did not spot medical 'red flags' like chest pain, breathlessness at rest, etc; providing dangerous and inappropriate advice
(b) fleecing the NHS on expensive contracts and aggressively marketing "phone first" or "digital first" consultations
(c) "partnering" with NHS Digital and NHS X to build their commercial products upon medical records (this is related to the 'Care.data' programme);
(d) generally speaking, muscling into "core" NHS territory (if you use their app, you used to be automatically de-registered from your real-life GP -- meaning that they got some money for providing GP services instead)
(e) having several high-up executives who have made significant donations to the Tory party, or who are Tory members.
I'm somehow not surprised they've had a data leak.
(a) promoting a "Virtual assistant doctor" -- glorified series of 20 questions -- that did not spot medical 'red flags' like chest pain, breathlessness at rest, etc; providing dangerous and inappropriate advice
(b) fleecing the NHS on expensive contracts and aggressively marketing "phone first" or "digital first" consultations
(c) "partnering" with NHS Digital and NHS X to build their commercial products upon medical records (this is related to the 'Care.data' programme);
(d) generally speaking, muscling into "core" NHS territory (if you use their app, you used to be automatically de-registered from your real-life GP -- meaning that they got some money for providing GP services instead)
(e) having several high-up executives who have made significant donations to the Tory party, or who are Tory members.
I'm somehow not surprised they've had a data leak.