On October 14, Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited denied rumors or reports which are not in line with the version of events that has been communicated to the security market regulator, according to the exchange filing.
The response is in the backdrop of reports suggesting an alleged sale of 31 million customers’ data by a Star Health executive to a hacker at the company.
Mishi Choudhary, Founder of SFLC.in, said that “in the absence of the DPDP Act, the insurance company can proceed under the IT ACT for unauthorized access. For individuals, it will be extremely hard to get relief. The insurance company that collected the data should be responsible to their customers as they failed to protect personally identifiable information entrusted to them.”
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Star Health denies data breach rumors, confirms ongoing investigation into customer data access
