Cybersecurity
Pfizer Says Some Vaccine Documents Accessed in EMA Hack
- Cyber-attack is latest attempt to steal research on Covid-19
- EMA says it has launched an investigation with law enforcement
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Pfizer Inc. said some documents it had submitted to Europe’s top drug regulator regarding its Covid-19 vaccine had been accessed in a cyber-attack on the agency.
The U.S. drugmaker and German partner BioNTech SE said in a statement they had been told by the European Medicines Agency that some documents relating to the regulatory submission for their experimental vaccine that had been stored on the EMA server had been unlawfully accessed.