Early warning
TSMC says no intrusion found after employee data was offered for sale
Hackers reportedly offered personal data allegedly belonging to about 46,000 TSMC employees, totaling 6.9GB, on an underground forum. TSMC reportedly said it found no evidence of intrusion into its systems.
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- Kind
- Possible breach
- Vendor
- TSMC
- Status
- Corroborated
- First seen
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- Made public by Bluesky
- First seen by cve.now1 day
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Evidence 11
- Social
- PressDataBreaches.net
“Hackers were openly selling personal data, allegedly belonging to TSMC employees, on an underground forum.”
- SocialMastodon
“TSMC has found that some of our current and former employee data was made available on an external website without authorization.”
- SocialBluesky
“TSMC data breach confirmed: a TSMC employee data leak traced to a cloud provider.”
- SocialMastodon
“TSMC data breach confirmed: a TSMC employee data leak traced to a cloud provider.”
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- Social
- SocialMastodon
“TSMC says its systems weren't compromised, yet employee data matched a cloud vendor's records.”
- SocialBluesky
“TSMC says its systems weren't compromised, yet employee data matched a cloud vendor's records.”
- SocialMastodon
“TSMC has disclosed a data exposure involving approximately 46,000 current and former employee records, with data allegedly stolen through a third-party cloud service provider.”
- SocialBluesky
“Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed that employee-related…”
- SocialBluesky
“In a significant breach, TSMC has reported unauthorized access to its systems.”
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