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Meta bruised in EU data fight

Joseph Boyle and Laurent Barthelemy, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 08:28 AM

European regulators have laid down one of the biggest challenges so far to the multibillion-dollar business model of Facebook owner Meta, analysts said. Read more »

Meta hit with 390 million euro fine over EU data breaches

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 05 08:59 AM

US social media giant Meta was slapped with fines totalling 390 million euros ($413 million) for breaching EU personal data laws on Facebook and Instagram, Ireland's data regulator said. Read more »

Ireland fines Facebook owner P15.6-B over data breach

Deutsche Welle
Posted at Nov 29 06:00 AM

Ireland's data regulator on Monday slapped Facebook owner Meta with a €265 million ($277 million or approximately 15.6 billion pesos) fine after details of more than half a billion users were published online. Read more »

NPC says Philippines spared from AirAsia data breach

Jacque Manabat, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 24 08:06 PM

Filipinos' data were not compromised in the reported massive ransomware attack on the regional airline AirAsia, the NPC said. Read more »

NDRRMC says official Facebook page was hacked

Rose Carmelle Lacuata, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 11 08:44 PM

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on Tuesday said it is investigating a suspected security breach involving its official Facebook page. Read more »

Int'l syndicate likely behind personalized text scam: DICT

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 09 04:47 PM

An international criminal syndicate may be behind the scam text messages that saw a surge in the Philippines recently, according to the DICT. Read more »

Nagkaroon ba ng data breach ang TikTok?

Jeffrey Hernaez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 06 12:16 PM

Tiniyak ng TikTok na ligtas ang impormasyon ng kanilang mga user matapos ang umano'y malawakang data leak mula sa sikat na social media app. Read more »

Personalized spam messages? Could be a data breach - group

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 01 12:07 PM

It is possible that a data breach or leak led to the spread of personalized spam text messages, a digital advocacy group said Thursday. Read more »

Smartmatic hackers had data on poll precincts: CICC

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 28 11:12 AM

The alleged hackers who were arrested for the Smartmatic data breach had data on polling precincts nationwide, the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center said Thursday. Read more »

NBI idinetalye ang resulta ng imbestigasyon sa Smartmatic 'data breach'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 19 08:15 PM

Idinetalye na ng NBI sa pagdinig ng Senado ang resulta ng kanilang imbestigasyon sa umano’y nangyaring data breach sa sistema ng Smartmatic. Read more »

NBI raids house of ex-Smartmatic employee

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 13 05:25 PM

The warrant was issued after Comelec and Smartmatic confirmed that a data breach occurred with the alleged involvement of Argana. Read more »

Alleged Smartmatic leak should be probed further: PPCRV

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 22 03:20 PM

The supposed data leak into tech firm Smartmatic is largely unrelated to the upcoming May 9 polls but still needs to be further investigated. Read more »

Pacquiao to Comelec: Allay doubts on security breach

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 18 06:52 PM

Sen. Manny Pacquiao urged the Comelec to clear doubts on an alleged security breach in the operations of poll software provider Smartmatic. Read more »

'Data sa umano'y Comelec hacking incident, baka galing sa 3rd party'

Johnson Manabat, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 02 09:00 PM

Iginiit ng Commission on Elections nitong Miyerkoles na hindi na-hack ang kanilang data servers, na iniulat ng isang pahayagan noong Enero. Read more »

Comelec iginiit na walang ebidensiya ng data breach

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 12 07:57 PM

Muling iginiit ng Comelec na batay sa pauna nilang imbestigasyon, walang naganap na data breach sa kanilang sistema. Read more »

Comelec official calls data breach report 'fake news'

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 12 02:26 PM

Commissioner Rowena Guanzon labelled as 'fake news' the Manila Bulletin article alleging that hackers were able to break into the poll body's servers. Read more »

Privacy body to Comelec: Explain 'hacking' by Jan. 21

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 12 04:42 PM

The National Privacy Commission told the COMELEC to explain the alleged hacking and data breach reported by the Manila Bulletin not later than Jan. 21. Read more »

Comelec investigating alleged data breach

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 11 10:49 PM

The Philippine election commission denied it was hit by a data breach involving sensitive information of voters and vote counting machines. Read more »

Result of probe into alleged COMELEC hack out this week

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 11 10:09 AM

James Jimenez said the COMELEC has not started a "configuration" process that would have generated usernames and PINs of the vote-counting machines. Read more »

Comelec investigating alleged data breach ahead of #Halalan2022

Ina Reformina and Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 10 08:59 PM

According to a Manila Bulletin report, 60 gigabytes worth of sensitive voter information and other data have been stolen by unidentified hackers. Read more »