MANILA, Philippines — The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has started validating information alleging that a large-scale breach has compromised 879,699 Facebook accounts of Filipinos.
According to an NPC statement, its initial information shows that data leaked includes phone numbers, full names, location, e-mail address, and biographical information of users across several countries.
The breach was said to affect 533 million users of the social media platform worldwide.
The NPC has already reached out to the data privacy officer of Facebook in the Philippines to gather more information.
“As we await more answers, we highly encourage Facebook users to be more cautious onl…
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