THE National Privacy Commission (NPC) will investigate the alleged data breach on seven government websites as it summoned its officials to shed light on the incident that happened on April 1.

In a statement, the commission asked the Taguig City University, the Department of Education (DepEd) offices in Bacoor City and Calamba City, Bulacan, the Philippine Carabao Center, Republic Central Colleges in Angeles City, and Laguna State Polytechnic University to appear before its office from April 23 to April 24 to explain why there was no 72-hour notice from their discovery of the breach of data of its users whose personal information were made available via links posted on Facebook.

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