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

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

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

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.