The pharmaceutical group Fareva victim of a cyber attack

The pharmaceutical group Fareva victim of a cyber attack
Published on 12/17/2020 at 2:00 PM | Updated 12/17/2020 at 5:32 PM

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Fareva victim of a cyber attack
Production would be suspended at the Amboise plant © Photo NR, Ivan Roullet

The Fareva group was the victim of a hacker attack. It would have stopped production in its factories, including that of Amboise.


After the European Medicines Agency , the Fareva group , a pharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Luxembourg, has in turn been the victim of a cyber attack. this Wednesday.

A ransom to restore the trade secrets?
The hackers would have seized the group's data, including confidential data concerning trade secrets, demanding a ransom to return them.

In addition to the productions carried out for large pharmaceutical groups, such as Viagra, Fareva is preparing to package an anti-Covid vaccine created by a German laboratory CureVac.

In Amboise, the factory shut down
This attack would affect all the sites of this leader in subcontracting, in America and Europe, including the Amboise plant . The production would be stopped since Wednesday and the employees placed on technical unemployment for an indefinite period.

On the Amboise site, it is the total silence of management and employees and the information has been neither confirmed nor denied.