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Star Health's data breach came to light when a hacker demanded a $68,000 ransom.  The personal data of over 3 Cr customers was put up for sale online.  The company reported the breach to CERTIn, IR...

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- Star Health's data breach came to light when a hacker demanded a $68,000 ransom.
- The personal data of over 3 Cr customers was put up for sale online.
- The company reported the breach to CERT-In, IRDAI and other agencies.
- Star Health has initiated a comprehensive forensic probe, expected to be completed by October end.
- The incident raises questions about cybersecurity measures at Indian companies.

Source: [Inc42](https://inc42.com/buzz/star-health-data-leak-insurer-releases-chronology-of-events/)

Star Health Data Breach: Hacker Demands $68,000 Ransom

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Star Health Data Breach: Hacker Demands $68,000 Ransom- Grapevine

- Hacker 'xenZen' alleges Star Health's CISO sold him customer data, later demanding more money for continued server access.
- Star Health confirms hack but finds no evidence against CISO in preliminary investigation.
- Over 3 Cr customer data leaked online, full dataset available for sale at $150,000.
- Star Health operations remain unaffected, thorough forensic investigation underway.
- Breach exposes over 7.24 terabytes of sensitive data, including Aadhaar and PAN card photos, medical reports, and claim details.

Source: [Inc42](https://inc42.com/buzz/hacker-alleges-cisos-hand-in-star-health-data-breach/)

CISO Accused in Star Health Data Breach Scandal

Worst White Collor criminal award goes to...

The company knew what he did and yet sent him to give interviews and collect awards. God knows how far up the value chain this sh*t goes.

Star Health CISO getting awards while selling consumer data

Business Analyst

Thank you boAt lifestyle for selling data on dark web

Software Developer

As per this post details leaked are 

Name
Phone number 
DOB
Parents name
Email
Govt Id

Data leaked: Data of Airtel’s 375 Million Indian customers is up for sale🙄

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Seems to have troves of sensitive data and scary at that. Wondering how much of our national cyber infra handling sensitive data is at risk from foreign state actors.

https://twitter.com/_avahgar_/status/1759792738177020260

Possible sensitive Indian data leak in dump from a Chinese hacking contractor. EPFO, immigration, telecom, Air India user records impacted

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wtf 37crore airtel numbers leaked

Hey Hackers, whats been your experience with Indian companies when it comes to responsible disclosures?

Mine: found a RCE and mailed a tech startup, said they will pay. its been qn yeqr since waiting for that amount to land in my account!!!! Indian companies are the worst. no ethics

Responsible security disclosures

Systems Architect

This was a powder keg waiting to explode. Aadhar system was broken from the start as the digital infrastructure was time and again proved vulnerable by multiple experts. Let’s wait and see the impact this has on our future.

Sab changa si!! Aadhar data of millions of Indians up for sale

Head Of Marketing

Aadhar data of 815 million Indians has been compromised

The health-tech company raised $25 million in 2022. Now their operations are shut, website deactivated. They haven't paid their employees for over 3 months. They encouraged employees to resign and brought their count down from 2000 to 200.
They even played a facade to showcase they were afloat by hiring people in Jan 2023, and moving to a larger office space. 
The employees allege the company had promised to clear the dues.

This was backed by the Kalaari capital and others. 
What's happening with health tech?

Health care start-up shut shop after raising $25 million

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Please do share what's the cover you have taken. Also, do you look only for claims settlement ratio or are there any other factors that were considered while finalizing?

Planning to move away from Star Health and looking for options.

Which Health Insurance do you have apart from the ones provided by your employer?

Program Manager

security researchers have revealed that a massive database containing no less than 26 billion leaked records has been discovered on an unsecured page.
If I am not wrong data privacy would be a joke in coming years.

Massive Data Leak Of 26 Billion Records From Sites Like Twitter, LinkedIn Detected.

How did the data breach at Sun Pharma happen?

Data breach at Sun Pharma. Any idea how exactly did it happen and what systems were affected?

Project Manager

Still, a large portion of the population believes that the following scenarios can't happen:

1. Mobile apps don't track and listen to your phone calls to show you the products you want.
2. The government is not spying on you.
3. Your private videos are safe and cannot be accessed by the mobile apps you use.
4. Credit card companies can't access your contact list and call your family members and friends in case of default.
5. Your anonymous online activities can't be traced by aggregating the data you provide on different platforms.
6. Some might say, 'What if they have my data? I'm not Ambani.' But don't underestimate the potential consequences.
7. Telecom companies store all your critical information, including your bank and UPI pin if you used their data for transactions (you can find more information in Airtel and Jio privacy concerns sections).

Believe me, anything is possible, and as a tech enthusiast, if you dismiss these concerns with a casual 'Nah,' Bhai or kisi ka pta nhi AI tumhari job jaroor replace karega ek din.

This five year old tweet is getting viral again.

Participants, the government notification said, will get rewards of up to ₹10 lakh and commendation certificates

Govt looking for ethical hackers to test India’s critical information infra

Govt finally waking up and calling for hackers

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Dukaan CTO moved out of cloud to save cost,  risk analysis?

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EPFO website compromised. Ministry emails compromised. Govt trying to deny and cover up but data is available on dark web.

Pathetic infosec practices by BJP govt, just horrendous mismanagement one after the other.

Best part is, if any Indian ethical hacker even tries to approach the govt, they mostly just ignore. No bounty for figuring out and exposing vulnerabilities either. 

Clueless shitheads are putting the entire country at risk with their bad practices and lack of recognition and rewards for Indian white hat community.

On Tuesday, a social media user on platform X alleged the leakage of documents from Chinese cyber agencies on GitHub. The user claimed that these documents contained data from the EPFO, the Indian PMO, and various public and private organisations.

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