{"id":43464,"date":"2026-01-21T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asuscloud.com\/?p=43464"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:13:10","slug":"2025%e5%8f%b0%e7%81%a3%e8%b3%87%e5%ae%89%e9%87%8d%e5%a4%a7%e4%ba%8b%e4%bb%b6%e5%9b%9e%e9%a1%a7%ef%bc%8c%e9%86%ab%e7%99%82%e3%80%81%e9%87%91%e8%9e%8d%e3%80%81%e8%a3%bd%e9%80%a0%e5%85%a8%e4%b8%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asuscloud.com\/en\/20260121\/43464\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of Major Cybersecurity Incidents in Taiwan in 2025: Healthcare, Finance, and Manufacturing All Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"43464\" class=\"elementor elementor-43464\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-512925f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"512925f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-66f5239\" data-id=\"66f5239\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b3206b3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b3206b3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-431ea19\" data-id=\"431ea19\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8cb0f0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8cb0f0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2025, Taiwan\u2019s digital landscape has moved beyond an era of passive defense. From confidential data leaks on manufacturing production lines and patient data risks within healthcare systems, to service disruptions at financial institutions and government agencies becoming prime targets for cyberattacks, cybersecurity incidents have clearly crossed industry boundaries and evolved into a shared challenge for all organizations.\n\nBeyond the increasing diversity and sophistication of attack methods, human-related data leaks continue to occur. Questions around excessive data access privileges and whether incident response mechanisms are sufficient when breaches happen have become critical issues that enterprises must seriously reassess. Today, the question is no longer whether a cybersecurity incident will occur, but when it will happen and whether an organization is resilient enough to withstand it.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-296a1c5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"296a1c5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c7b100c\" data-id=\"c7b100c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c688f74 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c688f74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">An Overview of Internal and External Cybersecurity Challenges Across Four Key Industries\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-307a9bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"307a9bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Healthcare:<\/strong>In February 2025, a medical center in Taipei was hit by a CrazyHunter ransomware attack, causing more than 500 computers in its emergency department to crash. Medical staff were temporarily unable to access patient record systems, and the personal data of tens of millions of patients was exposed.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Finance:<\/strong>In February 2025, a claims officer at an insurance company took advantage of gaps in the internal claims approval system, impersonating a supervisor to authorize claims. This bypass of internal oversight enabled the fraudulent processing of numerous false claims, resulting in losses exceeding NT$20 million.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Education:<\/strong>In June 2025, a private university in central Taiwan was hit by a Nova ransomware attack, with the attackers claiming to have obtained 10 GB of data<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Manufacturing:<\/strong>In August 2025, an internal employee at a major semiconductor company leaked confidential technology. The cybersecurity team, through routine monitoring, detected unusual network activity and discovered that the employee had remotely accessed the internal R&amp;D system and transferred data using a mobile device.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Observing the incidents above, it is clear that cybersecurity risks are not limited to external attacks; internal accounts can also become sources of risk. At the core of the problem is the overtrust placed in data and identities. The points of intrusion vary\u2014some involve leaked accounts, others exploit supply chain vulnerabilities, and some result from the abuse of internal privileges. However, what truly amplifies the damage is not merely unauthorized access, but that once inside, files can be freely accessed, laterally spread, and proliferate uncontrollably.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-46d7d47 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"46d7d47\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0378341\" data-id=\"0378341\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e539d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0e539d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">4 Core Data Issues Across Industries\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-013cfc8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"013cfc8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of industry, as organizations continue to accumulate growing volumes of data\u2014including large amounts of product-sensitive and personal information\u2014enterprises are increasingly recognizing that data risks grow in parallel with their digital transformation initiatives and AI adoption. Data is no longer just an operational asset; it has become a primary target for attackers. Consequently, more and more organizations are investing in cybersecurity resources and re-evaluating their data governance and protection capabilities. Across industries, the data challenges faced by enterprises can be summarized into four core dimensions:<\/span>\n<ol>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Regulatory and Audit Requirements:<\/strong>From the Personal Data Protection Act and industry regulatory standards to internal and external audit mechanisms, organizations must clearly understand where data is stored, how it is accessed, and its usage trails. Only then can they ensure traceability and accountability when facing audits.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Access Control Requirements:<\/strong>Beyond strict identity verification, organizations must dynamically adjust access rights based on an individual\u2019s role, responsibilities, and context. This helps prevent over-privileging, which can become a potential source of internal data leaks and misuse.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>External Data Sharing:<\/strong>As supply chain collaborations, outsourced services, and cross-organization partnerships become routine, data increasingly flows beyond organizational boundaries. This significantly raises the risks of data leakage, misuse, and unrecoverable access rights. Ensuring that data remains effectively controlled during external exchanges, while maintaining business efficiency, has become a critical challenge for enterprises.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>High-Security Network Environment:<\/strong>In line with corporate cybersecurity policies, network architectures must incorporate layered defenses to prevent lateral movement from a single point of intrusion. Coupled with real-time monitoring and incident response mechanisms, this enables organizations to quickly detect and block threats at an early stage, minimizing impact on operations and data security.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in practice, many organizations find that even after investing significant resources in cybersecurity infrastructure and management policies, the implementation of the four core data issues still faces challenges. The key reason is that most protections remain centered on \u201cnetwork perimeters\u201d and \u201cuser identities,\u201d<\/span>Once authentication is passed, files themselves often lack further control mechanisms, making it difficult to fully enforce regulatory requirements. Access controls tend to remain static, and external data exchanges lack visibility.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2868e43 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2868e43\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-68d690e\" data-id=\"68d690e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38c0e5e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"38c0e5e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">OmniStor Zero Trust File System \n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92544b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"92544b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">From Internal Risks to External Threats: Achieving Proactive Governance and Strengthened Defense\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3aaa251 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3aaa251\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To strengthen zero-trust practices and enhance data security, ASUS Cloud has developed OmniStor, a Zero Trust file management system focused on ultimate data protection and regulatory compliance. Built on a zero-trust architecture to address all enterprise data management needs, OmniStor establishes a multi-layered data governance framework and supports multiple deployment models. From identity authentication to data protection, it encompasses all core elements of zero trust, offering a proactive, integrated, and secure enterprise file management solution to address internal data security concerns and external threats. OmniStor features the following four key highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data Access and Activity Control: Enforcing Least Privilege and Zero Trust Architecture<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encryption in Transit and at Rest with Identity Authentication: Establishing Secure File Exchange Mechanisms Across the Supply Chain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi-Layered Secure Network Architecture: Supporting Integration with Security Software via API and ICAP<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comprehensive File Audit Trails: Enable On-Demand Access Review and Rapid Investigation in Case of Incidents<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As 2026 approaches and data risks continue to grow, ASUS Cloud is focusing on helping enterprises establish a \u201cResponsible Data Layer\u201d as its core direction. This approach ensures that enterprise data across industries remains controllable, traceable, and auditable in all application scenarios. Furthermore, when enterprises begin adopting AI, they can maintain strong data governance, ensuring that data sources and ownership can be verified, usage scope can be controlled, and actions can be tracked.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d105d23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d105d23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interested in how OmniStor enables Zero Trust file management?<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asuscloud.com\/en\/omnistor\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.asuscloud.com\/omnistor\/<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Need a free consultation for a Zero Trust file management solution? &gt;&gt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asuscloud.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.asuscloud.com\/contact\/<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;\">Reference sources:<\/span><\/p><ul><li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Microsoft JhengHei'; color: #333333; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; white-space: pre;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 8pt;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ithome.com.tw\/news\/167687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iThome<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/li><li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.udn.com\/money\/story\/5613\/9001801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">https:\/\/money.udn.com\/money\/story\/5613\/9001801<\/span><\/a><\/li><li dir=\"ltr\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewslens.com\/article\/254651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">https:\/\/www.thenewslens.com\/article\/254651<\/span><\/a><\/li><li dir=\"ltr\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctee.com.tw\/news\/20250806700033-439901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ctee.com.tw\/news\/20250806700033-439901<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the increasing diversity of cyberattack techniques, human-related data leaks continue to occur. 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