Security News > 2021 > January > Hackers Publish COVID-19 Vaccine Data Stolen From EU Medicines Agency
Hackers have started leaking documents related to COVID-19 medicine and vaccines that were stolen from the European Medicines Agency in early December 2020.
While EMA did not provide information on the affected third-parties, Pfizer and BioNTech at the time published a joint statement to reveal that the incident resulted in hackers accessing "Some documents relating to the regulatory submission for Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162b2."
On Wednesday, the agency revealed that the threat actor behind the data breach has published some of the documents that were stolen during the incident.
"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. Necessary action is being taken by the law enforcement authorities," EMA announced.
"The Agency and the European medicines regulatory network remain fully functional and timelines related to the evaluation and approval of COVID-19 medicines and vaccines are not affected," EMA also said.
The hackers started leaking data allegedly stolen from EMA at the end of December.