Jollibee data breach may affect almost 11 M customers

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said the data breach that hit homegrown multinational Filipino fast-food giant Jollibee, listed as Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC), is suspected to have affected or compromised the personal data of about 11 million customers of all the restaurant brands under the conglomerate.

- RAINIER ALLAN RONDA

Rainier Anthony Milanes, chief of the NPC's compliance and monitoring division, said that with the breach report submitted last Saturday afternoon affecting almost 11 million customers, the case was considered a major breach.

The breach, he said, affected the "data lake" of JFC, where personal data of the customers of all the restaurant brands under the Jollibee Group were compromised.

"When you say it's the 'data lake,' all kinds of data are there. It could be structured or unstructured (data)," he told The STAR in a Viber chat interview yesterday.