Taiwan chip firm Xintec suffers customer and employee contact data leak
An external IP address accessed the internal information systems of Taiwanese semiconductor packaging and testing company Xintec. Names and work email addresses of certain customers, some suppliers and a small number of employees were leaked. The company said it had blocked network access and isolated systems, and that operations continued as normal.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Xintec
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Names and work email addresses of certain customers, some suppliers and a small number of employees
- Cause / method
- Intrusion into internal information systems from an external IP address
- Location
- Taiwan
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Timeline
- Xintec's contact information leak and its measures to block network access and isolate systems became known.
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