German executives from the Swedish modegigant H&M has identified a number of employees ‘ personal data such as health problems, sex partners and menstrual problems.
It reports the German radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk.
It was through a flaw in the computer system that the employees at the H&M office in the southern German city of Nuremberg was aware that there was a secret folder, where the leaders gathered sensitive data on them.
There is a big scandal, evaluates the data-expert of data protection of Hamburg’s Police against the media:
– Qualitatively and quantitatively, there is talk about a massive violation of data protection rules, which certainly has been unparalleled in recent years.
Modevirksomheden risk a fine of more than € 20 million equivalent to almost 150 million Danish kroner.
It is ‘unacceptable that we have staff who have been affected by this’, and the administrator of personal data in Germany has contacted the concerned data protection authorities, writes H&Ms press division to the Swedish news agency TT.
Nuremberg-the office has over 700 employees. So far, the German media not found the motive behind dataregistreringerne, but it has been happening for a long time.
