TAIWAN: Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) mentioned on Friday {that a} cybersecurity incident involving one in every of its IT {hardware} suppliers has led to the leak of the seller’s firm knowledge.
“TSMC has lately been conscious that one in every of our IT {hardware} suppliers skilled a cybersecurity incident which led to the leak of knowledge pertinent to server preliminary setup and configuration,” the corporate mentioned.
TMSC confirmed in an announcement to Reuters that its enterprise operations or buyer data weren’t affected following the cybersecurity incident at its provider Kinmax.
The TSMC vendor breach is an element of a bigger pattern of great safety incidents affecting numerous corporations and authorities entities.
Victims vary from U.S. authorities departments, UK’s telecom regulator, to vitality big Shell, all affected since a safety flaw was found in Progress Software program’s MOVEit Switch product final month.
TSMC mentioned it has minimize off knowledge trade with the affected provider following the incident.