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Avisa cites sources close to the investigation into the data breach at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, which is based in Amsterdam.
The EMA is the one that approves vaccines in the EU. In the vaccine race, great prestige and financial interests are attributed to which vaccines are approved and when.
It was in December that the EMA reported on the data breach, where documents related to coronary vaccines and other drugs were reliable and reproduced on the Internet, writes Reuters.
The attackers have gained access to vaccine documents from, among others, Pfizer and Biontech. The two companies claim that the hackers gained “illegal access” to documents related to the development of their vaccine.
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry has not commented on the case, for example, but Moscow has repeatedly denied allegations of cyber attacks from Western countries.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has also not ruled on the case. Beijing has previously said that it firmly opposes all forms of hacking.
The EMA, together with the Dutch and European authorities, has opened an investigation into the attack, but no details have emerged about who is suspected of being behind it.
According to De Volkskrant, Chinese spies attacked the EMA in early 2020, while Russian intelligence did so later that year.
Exploit weaknesses
The newspaper sources say the Chinese are gaining access by hacking into computer systems at a German university. The Russians are said to have gained access by sending fake emails that exploited vulnerabilities in two-stage logins and other security systems.
Russian hackers are said to have had access to the EMA system for more than a month, according to sources at Volkskrant. They should be more interested in seeing which countries would use the corona vaccine produced by Pfizer and Biontech, and how many doses they would buy.
American Pfizer and German Biontech have confirmed that the perpetrators gained access to documents related to their vaccine through the attack.
