The European Medicinal Agency reported on January 13, that information about Vaccines against COVID-19 was stolen by hackers in December 2020. The organization now recognized that cybercriminals really published stolen data.
In the middle of December last year spent on the European Medicinal Agency of Medicines in the middle of December last year. Now the department said that cybercriminals behind hacking got access to the information about the vaccine against coronavirus and merged it into the network.
"Going now the investigation into the cyber attacks on the European Medicine Agency (EMA) shows that part of the unlaignedly received documents that are directly related to COVID-19 vaccines were merged into the Internet. Law enforcement agencies take all necessary measures in connection with this. Our agency continues to maintain a criminal investigation into the fact theft of confidential information and notify individuals and corporate clients, whose documents and confidential data could be an object of unlawful access, "the EMA statement said.
In the European Medicinal Agency, it also claims that the data leakage and further publication of secret information did not affect the activities of the Agency, as well as on the processes of approval, the dissemination of Vaccines against COVID-19 approved in the European Union from the company Pfizer.
This is not the first time a pharmaceutical organization and related to the company's pharmaceuticals that are engaged in the creation and spread of coronavirus vaccine, become victims of hacker attacks. For example, NCSC (National Cyber Security Center of Great Britain) in December 2020 also warned that "universities and scientific institutions have long become a real target for cybercrime groups and APT groups that are trying to access the data of conducted research related to the development of vaccines from COVID- nineteen".
Earlier, Microsoft also made a warning that hacker groups with government funding (APT-Group) are aimed at vaccine producers against COVID-19.
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