The Pfizer Fiasco
Amidst the global Covid 19 pandemic, hackers found ways to perpetually disrupt medical research and slow government responses to the crisis. Case in point, late last year hackers targeted the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the EU’s agency that supervises and evaluates medical products. The threat actor was ultimately able to steal documents from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE submitted during regulatory review of its Covid-19 vaccine. The hackers then leaked the documents all over the internet, causing a huge headache for governments and pharmaceutical companies alike.
