NPC confirms data of 11M Jollibee customers leaked

MANILA, Philippines -- Sensitive personal information of around 11 million people, including birth dates and senior identification numbers, in the records of fast food giant Jollibee Food Corp. has been compromised in one of the biggest customer data leaks in Philippine history, the government's privacy watchdog said on Monday. The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said the Jollibee group notified them on Saturday at 11:38 a.m. of a possible unauthorized access to the company's data lake, the centralized repository of all the data of the firm's business units. READ: 3 suspected hackers caught, tech journalist implicated "Sensitive personal information, including dates of birth and senior ID numbers, has been compromised. Approximately 11 million data subjects are affected, the majority of whom are Jollibee customers," Roren Marie Chin, chief at the NPC's Public Information and Assista...