Star Health and Allied Insurance received an asking ransom demand of $68,000 to provide access to confidential customer data leaked on October 9, according to the company’s BSE filing on Saturday.

The company said on the based of ongoing investigations, it appears that the hackers used bots to purportedly share customer sensitive information through Telegram (the social media and messaging platform) and certain websites.

The personal data belonging to over 3.1 crore Star Health policyholders as well as information pertaining to over 5.8 million claims were made publicly accessible last month via Telegram chatbots, according to a report by Reuters.

The insurance firm’s CISO took $150,000 for selling 7.24 terabytes of data, according to the hacker who said the company’s senior management was involved in the data breach.

The insurance giant confirmed a data breach, weeks after cybercriminals posted alleged customer health and medical data online.

Star Health Insurance has been a victim of a targeted malicious cyberattack which resulted in unauthorized and illegal access to certain data, according to the official statement on Wednesday. The company says operations remain unaffected,

Star Health and Allied Insurance revealed on October 9 that they were the victims of a cyber attack , resulting in “unauthorised and illegal access to certain data.” Despite this breach, the company assured that its operations were not affected.

Messaging app Telegram has acted against bots sharing sensitive data from Star Health and Allied Insurance, following a legal notice from the company. Telegram deleted the bots and monitors for new ones.

A hacker claims to have released sensitive data of 3.1 crore Star Health customers on Telegram. The data includes personal details, insurance claims,

The website claimed to have access to the data of over 3.1 crore customers, including sensitive information like PAN card details, phone numbers, tax details, residential address, and medical records.

India's popular health insurers, Star Health insurance, faced a massive data leak this week, which may have led to the data of 31 million customers being compromised. Here is everything that has happened in the case so far.