This emergency plan comes when the country is facing increased geopolitical tensions with the United States and its allies and follows an incident last year where a threat actor claimed to have gained access to a massive amount of personal data belonging to over a billion Chinese individuals from the Shanghai police.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a detailed document outlining the procedures that local governments and businesses should follow in evaluating and handling issues of data leaks.
The plan, which is currently seeking public input, suggests a four-tiered, colour-coded system based on the extent of harm done to the economy, a company’s online and information network, or the running of the economy.
As per the plan, data breach incidents that involve losses worth a billion yuan ($141 million) or more, and affect the “sensitive” information of over 10 million people will be classified as “especially grave”. These will be incidents that must issue a red warning, according to the plan.
MIIT released a 25-page document, where it classified all instances of data being unlawfully accessed, leaked, destroyed, or altered into four hierarchical tiers, based on the extent and severity of the harm inflicted.
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