Taiwanese chip manufacturing giant TSMC has confirmed a leak of personal information belonging to some current and former employees.
Local media reported that anonymous sellers on underground forums, including DarkForums and BreachForums, offered around 46,000 employee files for 3 Bitcoin.
TSMC employee data leak
The sellers also threatened to make the data public if no buyers came forward within a week. TSMC confirmed that employee information had appeared on external websites, but maintained there was no evidence its own systems had been hacked. The company also said the incident did not affect customer information or production-related data.
According to TSMC, the exposed records were linked to a cloud service provider, although it did not identify the provider or explain what service it managed. Business Next reported that samples shared on forums contained names, national identification numbers and bank account details.
TSMC said affected individuals have already been notified and that it is working with the service provider, cybersecurity companies and law enforcement to investigate the source of the leak. The incident comes as other Taiwanese companies face similar problems.
For example, travel booking platform EzTravel recently revealed that data belonging to more than 690,000 customers had been exposed. Meanwhile, Bank SinoPac reported that its online banking transaction system had been exploited, resulting in unauthorized transfers totaling NT$41.76 million.
Data security concerns
Similar incidents have recently affected crypto exchanges and financial companies elsewhere. In October, Bithumb revealed that a third party gained unauthorized access to one of its internal workplace tools, which could have exposed some customer information.
The same wave of incidents also hit Daishin Securities, which reported that information belonging to more than 38,000 customers, including names, email addresses and phone numbers, had been leaked. Mirae Asset Global Investment was also affected, prompting South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) to investigate the three cases and send a team to Daishin Securities.
The problem has also affected major US crypto companies. A security incident at Amplitude, Coinbase’s third-party analytics provider, exposed some customer contact information.
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