Due to a security gap, pharmacies can no longer issue digital vaccination certificates.
The FDP scolds - and again sees Jens Spahn responsible.
Berlin - The corona vaccination campaign in Germany has already experienced some massive problems: For a long time there was not enough vaccine - while other countries were already able to show six-digit vaccination numbers per day.
Then there was the chaos surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was first approved, then suspended, and has since been approved with restrictions.
Corona: Stop vaccination certificates in pharmacies - security gap found
Now there are new problems: Because security gaps were found in the pharmacies' issuing process for digital vaccination certificates, the Ministry of Health was now forced to enforce a compulsory freeze.
The reason for the mandatory stop is a
security gap uncovered
by the
Handelsblatt
.
Two IT security experts succeeded in using forged documents to create guest access for a non-existent pharmacy on the server of the German Pharmacists' Association (DAV).
With this access, two digital vaccination certificates were then issued.
The IT security specialists uncovered such large security gaps and showed that the portal had clear defects, explained a
Handelsblatt
spokeswoman for the dpa.
Jens Spahn complicit in the misery of vaccination certificates?
FDP raises allegations - "We could have saved the chaos"
For the FDP, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) is jointly responsible for the current vaccination certificate disaster.
The
Augsburger Allgemeine
said FDP health expert Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus: “We could have saved today's chaos and a lot of money if the federal government had acted in good time”.
Despite warnings, Spahn failed to create the conditions for a digital vaccination certificate.
According to Aschenberg-Dugnus, it should have been possible to transfer the QR code at the beginning of the vaccination campaign.
That would have meant less effort for the citizen and would have been safer.
The FDP parliamentary group had demanded this as early as 2019, long before the pandemic - if action had been taken in good time, "the entire subsequent effort would not have been necessary".
Corona vaccination certificates: Pharmacies face a problem - Spahn's emergency solution takes revenge
According to the DAV, the issuing of digital vaccination certificates at pharmacies was stopped on Wednesday after consultation with the Federal Ministry of Health. The pharmacies that have been registered so far are currently being checked, but so far there have been no indications of further unauthorized registrations. According to the DAV, more than 25 million digital vaccination certificates have been issued so far. However, the pharmacists' association assumes that they all come from legitimate pharmacies.
The DAV informed the
Handelsblatt
that no unauthorized access had been registered so far, but the news portal
Watson
reported that fake vaccination certificates had already emerged. According to
Handelsblatt, it
was not originally planned to issue digital vaccination certificates via pharmacies - the solution was only chosen because of the high time pressure. (
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