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TSMC says employee data leaked through a third-party cloud provider
Data on some current and former staff appeared online and matched records held by an outside provider; TSMC says its own systems were not breached. A seller claims 46,000 records.
- Organisation
- TSMC
- Disclosed
- 12 November 2026
- Affected
- 46,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Employee names, national IDs, bank details (claimed)
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Cyber Security News ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “TSMC says employee data leaked through a third-party cloud provider”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 12 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-12-tsmc-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Cyber Security News, https://cybersecuritynews.com/tsmc-data-breach/.
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