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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: 3, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 16 2021, @05:33PM (6 children)
but nothing is turned into DNA for a new cell - that DNA is not incorporated into your genome. It'll be a small random snippet of DNA - and the only thing that DNA can do is split back up into RNA and make that spike protein.
you have millions of random RNA fragments entering your body every day. what you're saying is if I eat a pig, I'm going to now have pig dna in my cells. that's just funny and ridiculous and false.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @09:15PM (5 children)
If you inject pig RNA enveloped in liposomes into your body then yes eventually some of it will be reverse transcribed and integrated into the genome of your cells. If you are lucky it will get into a sperm, placental, etc cell too. But who knows how frequent this is since they didn't check.
RNA in food isn't going to survive very long.
(Score: 3, Funny) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 16 2021, @11:10PM (4 children)
>RNA in food isn't going to survive very long.
as opposed to RNA that has to be stored at -100 degrees or it breaks down within hours? ok pigboy. i get it, you got some pig dna incorporated into your braincells. keep making up pseudoscience.
btw, no, if we inject pig dna, we will not get pig genome in our cells. that only worked for you, and you appear to be one step below human on the evolutionary scale. keep being scared, don't take the vaccine. what i fully support is people's right to choose, completely irrelevant of how stupid their decisions may be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @11:39PM (3 children)
What do you think the liposomes are for?
(Score: 3, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Sunday January 17 2021, @01:01AM (2 children)
to put a bag around shit. not to keep an mrna sample at -97 degrees for several days so it doesn't get destroyed. any more bright questions skippy? did they use those big nasty liposomes to insert pig dna into your genome? what bad people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2021, @01:17AM (1 child)
"It's like an M&M," Timothy Lise, PharmD, executive director of pharmacy services for New Jersey's Atlantic Health System, where he has served an integral role in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine, tells Health. "If you have chocolate in your hand, it's going to melt, but with the candy coating on the outside, it doesn't."
https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/why-does-the-covid-19-vaccine-have-to-be-kept-so-cold [health.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Sunday January 17 2021, @10:59AM
which is a terrible comparison - a bag is much more apt. if mrna was protected from high temperature by the envelope, it wouldn't need to be stored frozen. you know, because it's already in the bag when in the vial. but that bag is there to protect it from everything else that's not temperature - like liquids of the solution it's in, other mrna fragments, and particulate matter and ions in the solution and in blood.