Star Health data leak: What recourse do policyholders have?

Star Health data leak: What recourse do policyholders have?

The company suffered a severe hacking episode last month in which a hacker using the alias “xenZen” created a website and Telegram chatbots to leak its policyholders’ sensitive personal data from names, phone numbers, email IDs, addresses to financial and health information.  The hacker said Star Health’s chief information security officer Amarjeet Khanuja sold the … Read more

Come Oct 1, you will get only whitelisted links via SMS; new rule to help check online fraud through phishing

Come Oct 1, you will get only whitelisted links via SMS; new rule to help check online fraud through phishing

Starting next month, mobile phone users will not receive any unapproved web links via SMS. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recently announced that telecom operators must ensure that only whitelisted links are sent. The deadline for telecom operators to ensure this happened was supposed to expire on September 1, but it has … Read more