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.

> 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".