TSMC confirms employee data breach tied to cloud service provider

An investigation into the breach found that no TSMC systems were compromised but the information was “verified to match data stored in the system services of a cloud service provider, but is unrelated to the company’s operations or customer-related data.”

Covered by 3 publishers within 25 hours of the first report.

Summary from The Record.

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WCF Wccftech Taiwan Chip Giant TSMC Acknowledges Hack Of Reportedly 49,000 Employee Files Occurred But Says Leaked Data Matches That Stored With External Cloud Provider · Ramish Zafar 9:08 AM

CSN Cyber Security News TSMC Data Breach – Employee Data Exposed via Third-Party Cloud Provider · Abinaya 12:25 AM

REC The Record TSMC confirms employee data breach tied to cloud service provider 10:06 AM

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