Internet Chaos

Security incidents

Security incidentsScore 60

Hacker offers '46,000 TSMC employee records' for 3 bitcoin; TSMC confirms some staff data leaked, apparently via a cloud vendor ↗

A hacker on underground forums claims to have 46,000 records (6.9 GB) of TSMC employee data and is asking 3 bitcoin. On Nov. 12, TSMC confirmed some current and former employees' data was posted without authorization and said it matches data held by a cloud service provider, with no evidence its own systems were breached and no production or customer data involved.

Security incidentsScore 80

Hackers remotely turned supermarket freezers into 'ovens': France blames an Iranian Revolutionary Guard cyber unit for sabotage at 700+ stores ↗

Most cyberattacks steal data or demand ransom; this one physically wrecked equipment. On November 9, France's Foreign Ministry said hackers broke into refrigeration controls at more than 700 retail sites on the night of October 11-12, driving some freezers from about -27C to above 50C, causing at least 15 fires and tens of millions of euros in spoiled food. Paris blamed Shahid Kaveh, a cyber unit affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, called it the first purely destructive offensive cyber campaign on French soil, and said it would summon Iran's ambassador and seek E.U. sanctions. This is an official French attribution, not an independent verdict.