TSMC chip production knocked offline by WannaCry virus outbreak affecting unpatched Windows 7

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TSMC reveals cause of virus outbreak that brought production to a halt over the weekend

Chip-maker TSMC has admitted that an outbreak of the WannaCry virus - linked to North Korea - caused the production outage at a number of its production facilities over the weekend. The company ...

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