INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Last month Star Health sued Telegram and the hacker after Reuters reported on Sept 20 that the hacker used chatbots on the messaging app to
leak customer details | Photo: X@StarHealthIns3 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 12:08 PM IST
India's Star Health is investigating
accusations that its chief information security officer played a role in a data leak by a self-styled hacker who used Telegram chatbots and
official, Amarjeet Khanuja, was co-operating in its investigation into the leak, which has so far turned up no evidence of wrongdoing by
reported on Sept 20 that the hacker used chatbots on the messaging app to leak customer details, before setting up websites providing easy
targeted, malicious cyberattack, resulting in unauthorized and illegal access to certain data," Star said.
Independent cybersecurity
experts were leading its forensic investigation, Star added in the statement, and it was also working closely with authorities, to whom it
hacker to block any chatbots or websites in India that make the data available online.
Telegram has not commented on the lawsuit, while the
platform globally and the recent arrest of its founder Pavel Durov in France, with the app's content moderation and features allegedly
still allowing people to merely click on a start button to receive samples of the Star Health policy-related data, including claim documents
hacker's website offered claim document samples in PDF format, while users can also request up to 20 samples from 31.2 million datasets
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