China has drafted a contingency strategize outlining how companies and authorities need to reply to data security incidents.

The strategize proposes to classify any incident according to four colour-coded tiers, each based on the degree of harm inflicted upon national security, a company’s online and information network, or the running of the economy.

The strategize comes amid Beijing’s push to tamp down national security risks and heightened concerns around large-scale data leaks and hacking within its borders.

 

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It also comes amid increasing geopolitical tensions with the United States and its allies.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) published the detailed draft strategize on Friday, laying out how local governments and companies should evaluate and reply to incidents.

Incidents that involve losses surpassing 1 billion yuan ($141 million) and affect the personal information of over 100 million people, or the “sensitive” information of over 10 million people, will be classed as “especially grave”, the strategize proposed.

Such an incident would demand a red warning to be issued, it added.

It advance said that in response to red and orange warnings, the involved companies and relevant local regulatory authorities must establish a 24-hour work rota to address the incident.

MIIT must be notified of the data breach within ten minutes of the incident happening, the strategize said, among other measures.

“If the incident is judged to be grave… it should be immediately reported to the local industry regulatory department, no late reporting, false reporting, concealment or omission of reporting is allowed,” MIIT said.

The strategize, which is currently soliciting opinions from the public, follows an incident last year when a hacker claimed to have procured a trove of personal information on one billion Chinese from the Shanghai police.

 

  • Reuters, with additional editing by Vishakha Saxena

 

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Vishakha Saxena

Vishakha Saxena is the Multimedia and Social Media Editor at Asia Financial. She has been working as a digital journalist since 2013, and is an experienced writer and multimedia producer. As a stock market trader and investor, she is keenly interested in economy, emerging markets and the intersections of finance and society. You can tweet to her @saxenavishakha


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