TAIWAN—Apple Inc.’s contract manufacturer for chipsets for its iPhones, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., has been hit by a virus attack and production badly affected. Sources for the manufacturing company indicate that this was not a cyberattack by any outside hacker and to that extent, sabotage is not suspected.
According to TheNewsMinute.com, several factories of the company are involved in making the chips and almost all of them have been affected by the virus. A few factories have identified and isolated the virus and production has been resumed, but many are still being attended to. Production in all affected factories may not restart until the end of this.