Pfizer's vaccine has a 95% efficacy rate.
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Esteban Felix
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) was the victim of a computer hack last December.
The hackers managed to steal documents concerning, among other things, several vaccines against Covid-19.
This information has been posted on several forums.
But according to the EMA, the hackers would have intentionally added false modifications to these documents, reports
Numerama
.
Last Tuesday, some of the pirated files appeared on a Russian dark web forum, in a post titled "Staggering Fraud!"
Pfffizer (sic) is evil!
The vaccines are bogus!
The information disclosed was indeed related to the BNT162b2 vaccine, co-developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Fuel mistrust
After conducting an investigation, the European Medicines Agency issued a statement alerting the public.
According to the organization, the hackers have knowingly modified internal email exchanges to fuel mistrust against these vaccines.
Many plots have already been circulating since Pfizer's vaccine was made available to the public.
Until recently, it was particularly criticized when 33 elderly people in Norway died after receiving a first dose.
No link has yet been established, and the vaccine is still known to be 95% effective.
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