TSMC (APAC)
Threat actors publicly named in connection with targeting TSMC. Sorted by IDF score (rarity-weighted CVE attribution) with extraction confidence as tiebreaker. Each row's evidence is a verbatim quote from the source attribution.
4 attributed actor(s) ·
Category mix: insider=2, competitor=2 ·
Attacker regions: APAC=3, —=1
| Actor | Category | Sponsor | Confidence | Evidence | CVEs | IDF | Last active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chen Li-ming (TSMC 2nm leak to Tokyo Electron) (INS-CHEN-TSMC-2026) | insider | 🇹🇼 TW | 0.95 | Former TSMC senior engineer convicted ... over the leak of 2nm process trade secrets to Tokyo Electron Taiwan | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| UMC (post-Jinhua semiconductor civil disputes) (COMP-UMC-OTHER) | competitor | 🇹🇼 TW | 0.90 | disputes with TSMC and Vanguard International Semiconductor (2014-2022) | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Former TSMC manager indictment (TW, 2018 / HLMC) (INS-TSMC-CHANG-2018) | insider | 🇹🇼 TW | 0.85 | concurrent civil remedies pursued by TSMC | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Industrial espionage (competitor) | competitor | — | — | Aggregated trade-secret / talent-poaching cases — see the industrial-espionage record. | — | — | — |
Sibling victims
Other named victims whose attacker circle overlaps with this one — defenders use this to find sectoral or geographic cohorts that face the same actors.
- Vanguard International Semiconductor — 2 shared actor(s)
- New Relic — 1 shared actor(s)
- Dynatrace — 1 shared actor(s)
- Shanghai-VW — 1 shared actor(s)
- SAIC-GM — 1 shared actor(s)
- Waymo — 1 shared actor(s)
- Tesla — 1 shared actor(s)
- Apple — 1 shared actor(s)
- Nestlé — 1 shared actor(s)
- Procter & Gamble — 1 shared actor(s)
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