Cybersecurity
Taiwan Military Says Hackers Sold Telecom Giant’s Data on Web
- Military says documents from army, Foreign Ministry were lost
- It’s unclear who the hackers were and where they’re from
A military exercise in New Taipei City.
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Taiwan’s military said hackers sold data stolen from the island’s biggest telecom company on the internet, the latest challenge to the democratically run island’s cybersecurity.
The leaked documents that related to the military didn’t contain confidential information, the Defense Ministry in Taipei said Thursday in response to a query from Bloomberg News. Broadcaster TVBS reported earlier that hackers took sensitive information from Chunghwa Telecom Co. and Taiwanese national security units.