TSMC registers 179 million in losses due to ransomware infection

Losses caused by the shutdown of the TSMC plants due to malware infection would amount to about $ 179 million.

A few days ago we mentioned that TSMC had been infected with a virus, apparently a WannaCry variant ransomware. The infection has been quite serious and has caused some of their production plants to stop. This indirectly affects AMD, Apple, NVIDIA and Qualcomm, who had to receive 7nm products from the company, but with the stoppage things have changed and significant delays in the delivery of processors and millionaire losses are expected.

The shutdown of part of TSMC's production by ransomware causes millions in losses.

According to the information presented by DigiTimes, the infection by a variant of the WannaCry ransomware not only affected the plant workstations, but also caused the infection of several machines in the manufacturing area, which are managed by computers.

This cyber attack has led to the closure of several company factories, including 12-inch high-volume solutions. It seems that these plants work under the Windows 7 operating system, which did not have the corresponding security patches, possibly because they are not really connected to the internet, but to a specific intranet, but the reasons for how these machines have been could affect, but it would not be unusual if it was due to an infected USB.

The company has called all the workers to solve the problem as soon as possible. According to reports, the affected plants will be operational again on Monday, August 13. This downtime has already been affecting the company and third-party companies. It is estimated that the total lost in these days of inactivity and the cost of the maintenance and correction works is of 179 million dollars.