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TSMC Leak Exposes 46,000 Staff Records; Hackers Demand Bitcoin
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At a glance
Personal data of about 46,000 current and former TSMC employees in Taiwan was leaked and offered for sale on underground forums. The sellers threatened to publish it within a week if no buyer appeared.
Key points
- The hackers tried to sell the employee data for 3 bitcoin.
- TSMC confirmed that employee data had been posted on an outside site.
- The company said it found no sign that its internal systems were breached, and that customer and production data were not affected.
- TSMC said the leak was linked to an external cloud service provider.
Why it matters
Data leaks through outside vendors can happen to any company. Similar incidents are also continuing in Taiwan and in South Korea's finance and crypto sectors.
Original source
TSMC 직원 개인정보 4만 6,000건 유출! 해커들 "비트코인 3개 안 주면 공개"
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