Taiwan chip firm Xintec exposes customer and employee contact details
An external IP address accessed the internal information systems of Taiwan semiconductor packaging and testing company Xintec. Names and work email addresses belonging to certain customers, some suppliers and a small number of employees were exposed. The company said it had blocked network access and isolated systems, and that operations remained normal.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- 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
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- The exposure of Xintec contact information and its measures to block network access and isolate systems became known.
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