Star Health Insurance CISO accused of selling customer data
The hacker is now offering the complete dataset for sale at $150,000 (approximately ₹1.26 crore) and partial datasets of 100,000 entries for $10,000, with options for custom packages.
The hacker is now offering the complete dataset for sale at $150,000 (approximately ₹1.26 crore) and partial datasets of 100,000 entries for $10,000, with options for custom packages.
These records include policy documents, claims, names, phone numbers, addresses, tax details, ID copies, test results, and medical diagnoses.
The national average cost of a data breach, however, remains almost half as low as the global average which stood at $4.45 million last year with a 15% rise over three years.
The data breach includes server snapshots that could potentially be used for activities like SIM cloning and extortion, says a report by Athentian Technology
The more AI progresses, the more it poses a risk. Regulations, checks and balances and controls need to be built wherever there are vulnerabilities
The data breach exposed iRAD's source code and sensitive data of 10,000 users.
Four iterations of privacy bill since 2018 show regression in privacy protections and progression in empowerment of govt
The government has asked CERT-In, which is the national nodal agency for cybersecurity incidents, to look into the issue and submit a report.
Meta said that the company is "disappointed to be singled out when using the same legal mechanism as thousands of other companies looking to provide services in Europe."
The Indian arm of the Japanese automaker is the latest victim of data breach that might have exposed the personal information of some of its customers on the internet.