The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday urged the public not to fall for information spread by “ill-intentioned individuals,” following local media reports earlier in the day that confidential documents were being sold online.
The Chinese-language Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) reported that the seller touted the documents containing “first-hand information that has never been leaked before,” dating from 2022 to last month.
Some of the 4GB of PDFs have allegedly already been sold for Tether cryptocurrency, it added.
One of the documents was a letter marked as confidential from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Executive Yuan secretary-general dated February, listing ties with diplomatic allies as either “stable” or “showing warning signs,” the paper reported.
Others claimed to show correspondence about the progress on trade talks with the US, it said.
The ministry said that it considered the seller to be suspicious, adding that the case involved tampering by overseas agents, forgery and malicious cognitive warfare.
The ministry said it would coordinate with agencies to further investigate the matter.
It also urged the public not to fall for false information created by “ill-intentioned individuals.”
Additional reporting by Hsu Tzu-ling
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