Sensitive data exposure: 10.5% in the financial services industry (versus 8.0% average in other industries).

Among the 1,059 users who engaged with Chinese GenAI tools, there were 535 incidents of sensitive data exposure.

Financial information accounted for 14.4% of sensitive data exposed through employee use of Chinese GenAI tools at work.

The majority of sensitive data exposure (roughly 85%) due to the use of Chinese GenAI tools occurred via DeepSeek, followed by Moonshot Kimi, Qwen, Baidu Chat and Manus.

Code and development artifacts made up 32.8% of sensitive data exposed through employee use of Chinese GenAI tools at work.

Personally identifiable information (PII) comprised 17.8% of sensitive data exposed through employee use of Chinese GenAI tools at work.

Customer data represented 12.0% of sensitive data exposed through employee use of Chinese GenAI tools at work.

Mergers & acquisitions data accounted for 18.2% of sensitive data exposed through employee use of Chinese GenAI tools at work.

Legal documents made up 4.9% of sensitive data exposed through employee use of Chinese GenAI tools at work.