Hackers Targeted Russia's Gamaleya Center During COVID-19 Vaccine Development - Director

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th September, 2020) Russia's Gamaleya Research Center head Alexander Gintsburg said that the center was subjected to hacker attacks some months back when it was developing the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, but refrained from judging their purpose.

"There were hacker attacks, but whether they were related to the vaccine or not, I am not an IT specialist, so I don't presume to judge the purpose of these attacks professionally. But there were indeed attempts to hack our developers' computers," Gintsburg said in a television appearance on Russia's Rossiya-1 channel on Saturday.

In July, several Western nations accused Russia of standing behind hacker attack they said were intended to steal information on vaccine development efforts. These claims were never substantiated.