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The regional data protection authority in Hamburg has fined H&M a fine of SEK 367 million for unauthorized storage of personal information about its employees, Nyhetsbyrån Direkt reports according to DI.
The message came Wednesday after the case was investigated during the year.
It was in February earlier this year that it was revealed that H&M had mapped and stored sensitive personal data on the privacy of its employees. The information must have been available to a wider circle of managers within the company.
The Director General of the Data Inspectorate in Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, told SVT Nyheter that H&M stored information “in a systematic and detailed way” on the health conditions of employees, which included everything from cancer to urine leakage. Details such as fights in the family, vacation experiences, and information about friends and pets should also have been mapped.
Take the matter seriously
The clothing giant has made an official statement in which it states that they take the matter seriously and that it was they who reported the incident.
The personal data incident must have occurred at a service center in Nuremberg, which H&M reported in October 2019.
In its interim report, where the amount has been reserved, the company now writes that the H&M group “admits that mistakes have been made in the service center and forceful measures have been taken to correct what happened,” the company writes in its report intermediate.
