The insurance giant confirmed a data breach, weeks after cybercriminals posted alleged customer health and medical data online.

The personal data belonging to over 3.1 crore Star Health policyholders as well as information pertaining to over 5.8 million claims were made publicly accessible last month via Telegram chatbots, according to a report by Reuters.

The insurance firm’s CISO took $150,000 for selling 7.24 terabytes of data, according to the hacker who said the company’s senior management was involved in the data breach.

Star Health Insurance has been a victim of a targeted malicious cyberattack which resulted in unauthorized and illegal access to certain data, according to the official statement on Wednesday. The company says operations remain unaffected,

Messaging app Telegram has acted against bots sharing sensitive data from Star Health and Allied Insurance, following a legal notice from the company. Telegram deleted the bots and monitors for new ones.

Star Health and Allied Insurance revealed on October 9 that they were the victims of a cyber attack , resulting in “unauthorised and illegal access to certain data.” Despite this breach, the company assured that its operations were not affected.

By Hera Rizwan Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd., on Wednesday, announced that it had been the target of a malicious cyberattack, leading to unauthorised and illegal access to certain data, according to an official statement.

The hacker, xenZen, accused Star Health Insurance of directly selling the sensitive data to them. "I am leaking all Star Health India customers and insurance claims sensitive data. This leak is sponsored by Star Health and Allied Insurance Company,

A hacker claims to have released sensitive data of 3.1 crore Star Health customers on Telegram. The data includes personal details, insurance claims,

India's popular health insurers, Star Health insurance, faced a massive data leak this week, which may have led to the data of 31 million customers being compromised. Here is everything that has happened in the case so far.

In a disturbing development, Star Health Insurance has suffered a massive data breach after the firm's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) allegedly sold sensitive credentials of 31 million Indians including PAN/Aadhaar numbers,