Taiwan’s Massive Leaked Data May Have Fallen Into The Hands Of The CCP

It was reported on February 15th that a series of information leaks in the past three months has raised concerns in Taiwan about data security. Most worrisome of these is the possibility that sensitive information about the Taiwanese public, including senior Taiwanese government officials, may have fallen into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. In late December last year, it was reported that household registration information involving all Taiwanese citizens had been leaked. The data, which was sold on the Breached Forum website, involved 23.57 million messages, apparently stolen from the Ministry of the Interior’s Department of Household Registration. The website also sells 1.68 million pieces of information from the Taiwan Stock Exchange and 28.11 million pieces of information from the Bureau of Labor Insurance. To prove that it was genuine, 200,000 pieces of information were viewable as a sample. This included information on the residences of Vice President William Lai, National Security Council Secretary General Wellington Koo, and Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-Hua. Another report said that since 2020, more than 20 million household registration information has been leaked. In response to the leak, the Ministry of the Interior insisted that the information is outdated, as it uses a formatting system that is no longer in place. In January, reports that prosecutors were investigating three former National Health Insurance Administration employees for allegedly leaking data from Taiwan’s health insurance system to the CCP sparked a public outcry. And sources say the three employees have been selling the data to the CCP for more than 13 years and may be focusing on the stealing data of national security personnel. It remains to be seen whether Tsai’s administration will take concerted action on such matters.