Data tied to TSMC staff offered for sale on dark web for 3 BTC

An anonymous hacker is offering 46,000 records and 6.9 GB of data suspected to contain TSMC employee personal information for 3 BTC on the dark web and other channels, Taiwan’s Economic Daily News reported. The hacker also threatened to release the full dataset within a week if no buyer emerges. TSMC has confirmed that some personal information tied to current and former employees was leaked without authorization and said its internal probe has so far found no evidence that the company’s systems were hacked.