TSMC confirms leak of ~46K employee records offered for 3 BTC after cloud vendor breach
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-13
TSMC confirmed a data leak via an outside cloud provider that stored records on current and former employees. Listings on DarkForums and BreachForums offer 6.9GB allegedly containing 46K employee records for 3 Bitcoin ($220K), with a threat to dump everything free after a week.
A 499-row sample, tsmc.txt, shows 19 fields per person including national ID numbers, addresses, bank details, and emergency contacts. Per TSMC's SEC filing, there's no evidence its own systems were breached, and the data is unrelated to production or customers.
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