How TSMC’s employee data leak raises questions over cloud security

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) confirmed on the 12th of November that some current and former employees' personal information had appeared online without authorization. As per reports, the hacker has asked for 3 BTC, which is worth about $220K, for a database they claimed held 46,000 employee records. The hackers claimed to have 6.9 GB of data and threatened to publish it within a week without a buyer. However, no payment has been publicly verified, as of press time. What data did the TSMC leak expose? For the unaware, TSMC makes chips for other companies. They said that the leaked records matched data held by a cloud provider. Notably, these records included names, national ID numbers, and banking details, according to Taiwan News.

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