[Hacker Attempts to Sell TSMC Employee Data for 3 Bitcoins] According to Foresight News, citing Jiemian News, a hacker was offering what appeared to be personal data of TSMC employees for sale on an underground forum, asking for 3 Bitcoins. The hacker claimed to possess 46,000 records, totaling 6.9GB, and threatened to release the entire dataset if no one purchased it within a week. TSMC subsequently confirmed that data from some current and former employees had been released without authorization. The data matched data in a cloud service provider's system, but there was no evidence that TSMC's own systems had been compromised. The company emphasized that the data was unrelated to production or customers, and that it had notified affected personnel and provided assistance. It is also cooperating with the cloud service provider, investigative authorities, and third-party cybersecurity agencies in the investigation.