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In terms of the data involved, most incidents saw leakages of customer-related details such as personally identifiable information (53%), authentication credentials (33%), payment or credit card specifics (32%), account numbers (27%), and other personal particulars (26%).

The cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past 5 years and now costs $3.92 million on average.

The NPC said Cebuana Lhuiller has 72 hours from discovery of the data breach to report the details to the agency and affected data subjects.

Each year since 2016, Trend Micro has been hosting conferences and talks on the current security trends that companies and individuals should look out for. This year, it is again holding its annual event -- dubbed ?Security Trends 2018? -- with the topic focusing on data breaches.

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has posted on its website a formal order, dated May 2, obliging Wendy's Philippines to promptly notify data subjects affected in the breach and wholesale leak of its database last April 23.

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said it has summoned the management and responsible officials of seven schools, institutions, and local government units as it investigates data breaches they sustained following an organized attack on government and commercial organizations last April 1.