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.
3 attributed actor(s) ·
Category mix: insider=2, competitor=1 ·
Attacker regions: APAC=2, —=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 | 1.00 | Former TSMC senior engineer convicted ... over the leak of 2nm process trade secrets | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| Former TSMC manager indictment (TW, 2018 / HLMC) (INS-TSMC-CHANG-2018) | insider | 🇹🇼 TW | 0.90 | 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.
- Thales — 1 shared actor(s)
- Microsoft — 1 shared actor(s)
- Google — 1 shared actor(s)
- Anthem — 1 shared actor(s)
- Twitter — 1 shared actor(s)
- Waymo — 1 shared actor(s)
- Apple — 1 shared actor(s)
- Tesla — 1 shared actor(s)
- General Motors — 1 shared actor(s)
- LG Display — 1 shared actor(s)
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