A hacker put the data of 46,000 TSMC employees up for sale for 3 BTC.
A 6.9 GB database appeared on one of the hacker forums, allegedly containing personal data of 46,000 employees of the Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC. The attacker asked for 3 BTC for it.
TSMC confirmed the data leak of several current and former employees. According to preliminary results of the investigation, the information was received from a system of a third-party cloud provider, and not as a result of a hack into the company's internal infrastructure.
The manufacturer stated that production processes and customer data were not affected. The company informs the affected employees and investigates the incident in cooperation with the cloud provider, law enforcement and cyber security experts.