Bureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan security incident history
Hacking, data breaches and other security incidents involving Bureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan, with related coverage.
Taiwan consular bureau hack exposes passport photos and powers of attorney
774Impact: 72,702 facial photographs for passport applications, 26,072 scanned power-of-attorney files, and photographs and application-related information from 774 ABTC applications
Some websites of Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were hacked, resulting in the theft of 72,702 facial photographs submitted for passport applications and 26,072 scanned power-of-attorney files from the representative office in New York. An investigation also confirmed that photographs and application-related information from 774 ABTC applications had been exposed. The bureau isolated and restored the affected servers and found no evidence that passport applicants’ names, dates of birth, identity card numbers or passport numbers had also been stolen. It said the validity of passports already issued was unaffected.
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