Norwegian public broadcaster NRK reported on Thursday a data breach related to the HMD's Nokia 7 Plus model, saying that some phones had sent data to the Chinese server.

HMD Global, which develops Nokia-branded mobile phones under license by Nokia, said no personal data had been shared with a third party, but confirmed that there had been a data software glitch with one batch of handsets that had been fixed.

Finland’s data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones had breached data rules.

NRK said it was alerted to the data issue after a Nokia 7 Plus user contacted them to say his phone often contacted a particular server, sending data packages in an unencrypted format.