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MediaTek ex-engineers (Taiwan Trade Secrets Act, 2020)INS-TAIWAN-MEDIATEK-2020 insider
🇹🇼 TW
aka MediaTek trade-secret case 2020
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0attributed CVEs
0ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active
About this actor
Taiwanese prosecutors and the Hsinchu District Court indicted and convicted multiple former MediaTek engineers between 2019 and 2022 for taking confidential chip-design materials before moving to PRC-headquartered competitors; multiple sentences under the Trade Secrets Act with NTD fines. Group of cases cited in Taiwan MOJ annual IP-protection reports.
How we know this
- Data origin
- Curated overlay Insider-threat entry synthesised from public reporting and court filings — not a MITRE-tracked intrusion set.
- Techniques
- No ATT&CK techniques mapped.
- Named victims
- 1 extracted from reporting.
Thin data: No ATT&CK techniques are mapped yet — the behavioural profile is empty. Only one named victim is on file.
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Activity timeline
No activity events recorded.
Profile
| CVE | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | Published | Products |
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No techniques attributed.
Co-occurring actors
None.