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: 2) by fakefuck39 on Friday January 15 2021, @10:46PM (2 children)
feeding the trumptrolls i guess, but here we go:
23 out of 25000, super old super sick people died after the vaccine. how many do you think would have died within that duration without the vaccine? i think those same 23. there is no news that anyone, in the world, has died From the vaccine. stop spreading misinformation.
but yes, the data should be public. not because a conspiracy antivaxx loon like you wants to see it. because there is no such thing as a "pfizer vaccine," and the biontech vaccine talked about here, created by two turkish muslims in germany, was developed using a huge sum of EU taxpayer money, so any results should be open to the public.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @09:19PM (1 child)
These arguments are moronic (hence your engagement) because the outcomes are not knowable unless you do studies with identical twins having identical health histories and identical diseases simultaneously, vaccinate one, but not the other. Not enough data, and you can't predict the future either way.
It's a gamble either way and some people love to gamble and some hate to.
Science and medicine are doing their best, thank you and them, and we just have to wait and watch the results and learn.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 16 2021, @11:12PM
actually, this is completely false. I already gave the example of a phone dialing a phone number. how do you know your phone won't explode if you dial a number you haven't dialed before? the only way to be sure is to have identical twins dial the number apparently.
there's plenty of data, and we know exactly what this long-researched mRNA method does and how it works. it's literally only you who not only lacks that knowledge, but refuses to listen to people who do, while spouting bullshit online.