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Documents related to the Biontec and Pfizer vaccine against the Covid-19 epidemic were hacked during the cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency, Pfizer announced on Wednesday (December 9, 2020). “It is important to note that neither the Biontech system nor the Pfizer system were compromised” in the incident, the company said in a statement, “and we did not detect hacking of personal data.”
“We are awaiting more information from the research being carried out by the European Medicines Agency to act appropriately in accordance with European legislation,” he added. “Given critical public health considerations and the importance of transparency, we continue to provide clear elements for all aspects of vaccine development and the regulatory path,” the company added.
And on Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency, which is currently studying allowing the use of several vaccines against Covid-19, announced that it had been subjected to a cyberattack, without giving details about the time of the attack or the party that carried it out. .
The European Medicines Agency had confirmed that it would announce its decision on the conditional approval of the Biontec and Fayez vaccine at a meeting held no later than December 29, noting that the vaccine has been approved in the United Kingdom, Bahrain and Canada.
The cyberattack comes after a series of warnings in recent months of pandemic-related hacking operations that may target Western labs and pharmaceutical companies.
AS / HD (AFP, Reuters)
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