Maxicare officially notifies NPC of data breach - BusinessWorld Online
Source: BusinessWorld
Published on: 2024-06-18 13:09
THE National Privacy Commission (NPC) confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a data breach notification from Maxicare Healthcare Corp. In a statement, the regulator said that the NPC Data Breach Notification Management System received a notification from the health maintenance organization on June 16. The breach was first made public on Tuesday in a Facebook post by a cybersecurity advocacy known as Deep Web Konek. Deep Web Konek estimated the breach as having compromised 33 megabytes of Maxicare data. Member details included 16-digit Maxicare card numbers, account types, dates of birth, sex, mobile numbers, and e-mail addresses, it said. Separately, the NPC said that it has not received any data breach notification from the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) as of Tuesday afternoon. "As of 2 p.m. today, there has been no notification from Marina. But they have 72 hours upon kn...
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