According to the German Pharmacists’ Association, the Federal Ministry of Health has stopped issuing corona vaccination certificates in pharmacies. The background is apparently a security hole.
Pharmacies all over Germany have not been able to issue corona vaccination certificates since Wednesday. The German Pharmacists Association (DAV) announced on Thursday that the issuing of certificates had been stopped in consultation with the Federal Ministry of Health.
Apparently “serious security gap” in the creation of digital corona vaccination certificates uncovered
The “Handelsblatt” had therefore succeeded “with the help of professionally forged documents” on the DAV server to generate guest access for a non-existent pharmacy owner, with which two vaccination certificates were then issued. Therefore, the registered sites are currently being checked. But so far there has been no evidence of other unauthorized access.
The “Handelsblatt” announced on request that it was correct that the newspaper had discovered a serious security gap in the creation of digital vaccination records. “However, the ‘Handelsblatt’ itself did not gain access to the system; two IT security specialists have disclosed the weak point and thus demonstrated that there are significant deficiencies in the portal,” explained a publisher’s spokeswoman.
According to the DAV, it has not yet been determined when the pharmacies will be able to issue vaccination certificates again. However, it can be assumed that the more than 25 million vaccination certificates that have been issued so far all come from legally registered pharmacies.
