Star Health Insurance Became Target of Cyberattack, Data of More than 3 Crore Policyholders Stolen!

Star Health, one of the big health insurance companies, has said that it has become the target of a cyber attack last month. In this cyber attack, important data of the company has been stolen. Star Health has filed a criminal complaint regarding this. Along with this, Insurance and Cyber ​​Security Regulatory Authorities have been informed about this matter.

The company told TechCrunch in a statement It has been told that she has become the victim of an incident of data theft. This matter was reported about two weeks ago. The company has said that hackers have breached ‘important data’. However, it has not confirmed whether customer data has also been stolen in this cyber attack. A recent report claimed that hackers had used Telegram chatbots to break into the company’s data.

Star Health said that forensic investigation of this matter is going on by cyber security experts. Along with this, the company is working closely with the government and regulatory authorities at every stage of the investigation. In this cyber attack that took place last month, personal data of about 3.1 crore policyholders of the company and data of more than 58 lakh insurance claims were reported stolen. It was reported that this data was later leaked through the messaging platform Telegram. After this, the company filed a legal case against Telegram for allegedly helping in leaking this data.

The Madras High Court had ordered Telegram to block such chatbots and websites in the country that have made this data available online. Apart from this, Star Health has also filed a complaint against software company Cloudflare for providing services to websites hosting leaked data. In the last few years, cases of hackers breaking into companies’ databases have increased. In some of these cases, hackers had also demanded huge amounts of money for not leaking the data.