MANILA, April 8 -- An investigation by the National Privacy Commission (NPC) has found that the personal data of approximately 597 employees of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) have been compromised following the hacking of its system last week.

In a statement on Monday, the NPC said an on-site investigation at the DOST Central Office was made by the NPC-Complaints and Investigation Division (CID) on April 4 and found that the breach potentially exposed personal information such as names, gender, civil status, and addresses of these individuals.

"The data dump uploaded by the threat actor included several resumes of individual applicants to DOST. The NPC-CID is currently engaged in a thorough analysis of the data dump to ...