Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-12-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: European Medicines Agency
Affected country: Netherlands
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The European Medicines Agency, which is responsible for COVID-19 vaccine approval, has been hit by a cyberattack. Pfizer and BioNTech have stated that documents related to their vaccines were accessed during the attack. The EMA later revealed that some of those documents were doctored by the threat actors to undermine the public's trust in the vaccines.