Rome prosecutors have opened a probe
into suspected hacker attacks on a firm south of the Italian
capital that will put the new Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine
into phials for distribution.
The attacks on the computer systems of biomedical company IRBM
at Pomezia have taken place over the last few weeks.
Postal police are carrying out checks into the systems.
Britain on Wednesday approved the Oxford vaccine, which has
become the second vaccine to be approved after one made by
Pfizer and BioNTech.
Another Italian firm, Catalent, based at Anagni between Rome and
Naples, will also help package the vaccine.
IRBM Science Park is an Italian firm, founded in 2009 at Pomezia
just south of Rome, operating in the sector of molecular
biotechnology, biomedical science and organic chemistry.
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