China says Dior fined after illegally sending customer data to France

BEIJING, Sept 9 — Dior’s Shanghai branch illegally transferred customers’ personal data to its headquarters in France, resulting in a data leak in May, China’s public security authority said today.

The company failed to conduct mandatory security assessments before transferring data overseas and did not notify users or encrypt the information as required, the authority said in a statement.

An administrative penalty was imposed on the firm, it added.

Dior did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

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