The European Commission fined AliExpress 550 million euros ($629 million) on Monday, the largest penalty imposed so far under the EU Digital Services Act, saying that the Alibaba-owned e-commerce platform had failed to adequately assess and mitigate the risks associated with the sale of illegal, unsafe, and counterfeit products.

The EU has hit AliExpress with a €550M fine, its biggest DSA penalty yet, for failing to stop the sale of counterfeit, unsafe and illegal products.

The penalty issued under the bloc's Digital Services Act is the highest so far