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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from its servers in December was leaked online.
EMA is a decentralized agency responsible for reviewing and approving COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for evaluating, monitoring, and supervising any new medicines introduced to the EU.
"The ongoing investigation of the cyberattack on EMA revealed that some of the unlawfully accessed documents related to COVID-19 medicines and vaccines belonging to third parties have been leaked on the internet," EMA said today. "Necessary action is being taken by the law enforcement authorities."
"The Agency continues to fully support the criminal investigation into the data breach and to notify any additional entities and individuals whose documents and personal data may have been subject to unauthorized access."
EMA also said that European medicines regulatory network is fully functional and COVID-19 evaluation and approval timelines are not affected by the incident.
On December 31st, BleepingComputer became aware of threat actors leaking what they claimed was the stolen EMA data on several hacker forums. Below is a screenshot of one of the leaks seen by BleepingComputer at the time.
The hacked files show that the clinical vaccines had 78% RNA integrity which dropped to only 55% in the commercial batches:
https://m.imgur.com/tQrnUWM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2021, @08:30PM (4 children)
It's scary that they feel the need to purge the data from the web. I won't be taking any med until many people die or don't die. Go ahead and cut into the line I'm not in a hurry. If the virus has such a low death rate and the "cure" has about the same or less; but you have to take it four times a year! I'll take my chance with the virus. At least with that I can try to avoid it. With the "cure" I have to take it and risk complications to get only a few months of "protection."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @04:32AM (3 children)
I think the impetus for removing the posted "data" is that, as ArsTechnica is reporting [arstechnica.com] that the data an emails have been doctored to portray the vaccine as less safe and effective than it actually is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @06:33AM (2 children)
What was doctored about it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @07:45AM (1 child)
Why do I have to repeat myself? Is it too hard to just read the comment?
I said [soylentnews.org]:
What's the matter? Are the words too big for you to understand? Or is it that you're too lazy to click on a link to get more information and want it spoon-fed to you?
Perhaps someone else will indulge your poor reading comprehension/laziness, but not me. Sorry about that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @03:14PM
That doesn't answer the question. If it was doctored they could show us the original vs modified so we can see how.