Incidents in country:
6 incidents catalogued
Japanese motor and electronics giant Nidec confirmed a ransomware attack on its Taiwanese subsidiary Nidec Chaun Choung Technology, after which the Blackfield gang claimed the breach and demanded a $2 million ransom.
A dataset dubbed FortiBleed exposed valid Fortinet FortiGate VPN credentials — including plaintext passwords — for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries, the product of a Russian-speaking crew that reused passwords from earlier breaches and infostealer logs rather than any new Fortinet vulnerability.
The Nitrogen ransomware group claimed on its dark-web leak site that it had stolen over 11 million files from Foxconn's North American facilities, including confidential information belonging to customers Apple, Dell, Google, Intel, Nvidia, and Sony. Foxconn said affected factories were resuming normal production.
An unsecured, password-free cloud database belonging to Hotai Motor's iRent car-sharing service exposed roughly 4.2 terabytes of data on more than 400,000 customers, including driver's-license photos, selfies, and partial payment-card details.
A WannaCry ransomware variant spread through unpatched Windows 7 fabrication tools at TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, halting production at plants in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan and causing an estimated $170 million in losses.
North Korea's Lazarus Group used custom malware to commandeer Far Eastern International Bank's SWIFT terminal and wire roughly $60 million to accounts in the U.S., Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, deploying Hermes ransomware as a diversion.