TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed that data on some of its current and former employees was posted on an external website without authorization. It said so in a statement filed on Thursday, November 12, with the SEC, the US securities regulator, signed by its chief financial officer, Wendell Huang.
According to the company, the information matches data stored in the services of a cloud provider and is unrelated to its operations or to customer data. TSMC says it has found no evidence that its own systems were compromised, that it is informing the people affected and that it is working with the provider, with the authorities investigating the case and with an outside cybersecurity firm.
TSMC has not said how many people are affected, what data was exposed or who the provider is. According to FinanceFeeds, citing the Taiwanese outlet Business Next, sellers on two underground forums are offering about 46,000 records for 3 bitcoins; those figures and the content of the records come from the sellers, not from TSMC.
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