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MANILA (REUTERS) – Cebuana Lhuillier, a Filipino financial service provider, said Saturday, Jan. 19 that data from 900,000 customers had been accessed without permission and that he had already alerted the authorities to investigate. on this incident.
The violation came as Filipino investigators examined allegations by the country's foreign minister last week that a contracted company with an individual had seized documents and data from the Department of Foreign Affairs' pbadport database. .
Cebuana Lhuillier, whose services include pledging, remittances, microinsurance and business-to-business microcredit solutions, said some information, such as birth dates, addresses and sources of income, was affected by the offense regarding a mail server used for marketing.
"This is only a very small part of our customer base, the main server containing all Cebuana Lhuillier customers remains protected and uncompromising," said Richard Villaseran, head of the division of business communication.
He added that the company's customers had been informed of how to further protect their personal information.
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