Mobile operator's security breach hits headlines
On 15 January 2021 the National Communications Commission (NCC) issued an official order of recall against Taiwan Mobile, one of the country's top three mobile operators. The order concerned Taiwan Mobile's self-branded smartphone (the Amazing A32), which had been supplied by a Chinese company and was sold to more than 94,191 subscribers between April 2018 and July 2020. On 6 January 2021 Taiwan Mobile had sent a notice to its 7,557 subscribers who used the affected smartphone, advising them that a trojan virus had been implanted during the manufacturing process in China, which eventually led...