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29th Mar 2024

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Hacked EU files show pressure for quick vaccine approval

Documents recently stolen by hackers from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam and published on the dark web showed the EMA came under pressure from top EU officials in Brussels and from pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNTech to quickly approve their coronavirus vaccine, according to Le Monde, which recovered some 20 of the files. The EMA claimed hackers had manipulated the original texts prior to publication, however.

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