According to iThome, on October 30, cable TV and broadband provider Taiwan Optical Platform (TOP) issued a cybersecurity material announcement disclosing that files on certain information systems of the company and its subsidiaries were encrypted, affecting internal system operations; on the same day, TOP's TPEx-listed subsidiary Shin Chuan International Multimedia Technology (6856) issued a similar material announcement stating that information systems of the company and its subsidiaries suffered a cyberattack in which some files could not be decrypted .