Pamela T Munyoro.
(News of The South) – The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says it has been hit by a cyber-attack and documents relating to a Covid-19 vaccine have been accessed.
The cyber- attack comes the day before the agency is due to update the European Parliament on the progress of the vaccine assessments.
BioNTech, which makes one of the vaccines in partnership with Pfizer, said its regulatory submission was accessed during the attack.
The EMA is working on approval of two Covid-19 vaccines, which it expects to conclude within weeks.
In a statement BioNTech published on its website saying,
“Today, we were informed… that the agency has been subject to a cyber-attack and that some documents relating to the regulatory submission for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, which has been stored on an EMA server, had been unlawfully accessed,” it said.
The EMA did not provide any details on the nature of the cyber-attack, beyond saying a full investigation had been launched.
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