A hacker who used Telegram chatbots to disseminate customer data accused chief information security officer Amarjeet Khanuja of playing a role in the leak.
Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd. is now investigating whether its chief information security officer had a role to play in a massive data leak that compromised personally identifiable information of its 31 million customers, Reuters reported.
The Chennai-based insurance company’s investigation follows accusations by a hacker, xenZen, who used Telegram chatbots to distribute the compromised data, which included names, phone numbers, ID documents, medical details and more.
This hacker claimed that Star Health’s CISO Amarjeet Khanuja gave them access to Star Health’s internal application programming interface, which allows for the access of customer data. They also released a …
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