Customer Data Leak: A report claims that the data leak contains personal information of policyholders such as their names, mobile numbers, addresses, tax details, ID cards, test results and medical conditions.
Customer Data Leak: Bad news has come out for crores of customers of Star Health and Allied Insurance. It is being claimed that the personal information of about 3.1 crore policyholders of the company has been leaked. These have been made available on Telegram by hackers through chatbots.
This data contains sensitive information related to customers. However, Star Health has said that this incident of data theft is not a big one. They are in touch with law enforcement officials regarding this. Recently, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested on charges of promoting crime.
Details like names, mobile numbers and addresses of policyholders are available
Citing a Reuters report, Mint has said that the creator of these chatbots had given information about Star Health’s data to Jason Parker, a UK security researcher. He gave this information to security agencies. According to the report, an attempt is being made to sell the personal information of policyholders through Telegram. Those making such claims are also providing samples.
Reuters has also downloaded them. These contain information about the policyholders’ names, mobile numbers, addresses, tax details, ID cards, test results and medical conditions. On the other hand, the company has said that the customer’s data is safe.
Telegram unsuccessful in stopping crimes committed through chatbots
Telegram is one of the world’s largest messenger apps. It has about 900 million users. The company is proving unsuccessful in curbing these crimes committed through chatbots. Apart from this, questions are also being raised on the data security of Indian companies. Jason Parker contacted this hacker named Zenzen (xenZen) by posing as a data buyer. Zenzen claims that he has 7.24 terabytes of data. At present it has not been revealed how this data reached that hacker.
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