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(47) The handling of sensitive data, crucial for dealing with potential public health emergencies, requires a high level of protection against cyber attacks. Healthcare organisations have also been facing heightened cybersecurity threats in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Agency itself was the target of a cyber attack that resulted in some documents related to COVID-19 medicinal products and vaccines belonging to third parties being illegally accessed and some of those documents then being leaked on the internet. It is therefore necessary for the Agency to be equipped with a high level of security controls and processes against cyber attacks to ensure that the Agency operates normally at all times and especially during public health emergencies and major events. To that end, the Agency should establish a plan to prevent, detect, mitigate and respond to cyber attacks so that its operations are secure at all times, while preventing any illegal access to documentation held by the Agency.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.