Hackers manipulated stolen Covid vax data to ‘undermine trust’

London, Jan 19 : In a startling revelation, European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said that hackers have manipulated stolen Covid-19 vaccine data in an attempt to “undermine trust” in the vaccines.
The ongoing investigation of the cyberattack on EMA found that some of the unlawfully accessed documents related to Covid-19 medicines and vaccines have been leaked on the Internet.
“Some of the correspondence has been manipulated by the perpetrators prior to publication in a way which could undermine trust in vaccines,” said the latest update from the EMA.
The EMA suffered a data breach and disclosed it last month.
The leaked Covid-19 data includes internal/confidential email correspondence dating from November, relating to evaluation processes for the vaccines.
The news comes at a time when mass vaccination has started in several countries, including in India.