NHS-approved online pharmacy fined £130,000 for selling customer data

‘The UK’s largest NHS-approved online pharmacy has been fined £130,000 for selling details on over 20,000 customers to overseas organisations without customers’ permission.

Pharmacy2U was found to have advertised details on over 100,000 customers as being for sale, and sold 20,000. These details were often sold on the basis of why the customer had used the website, such as for conditions including asthma and Parkinson’s disease. The records were sold for as little as £130 per 1,000.

One particularly notable sale of customer data involved an organisation in Australia called The Lottery Company which used the information to contact people saying they had been “specially selected” to “win millions of dollars”.’

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