three bitcoins seems rather cheap?

china already bought the data and did set up a small team of 1 million competent people to look at those 46000 employees.

core TSMC operations should be done on a network physically separated from internet, at best a pure IP "VPN" link to connect 2 of its entities.

	▲	rat9988 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> china already bought the data and did set up a small team Very likely, and same for the US, if they didn't already access the data before this "hack".

kikdij 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Unless they intend to sell the data anyway.

	▲	freak42 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		There is no need for any correlation of the two.