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Madras High Court dismisses petition seeking probe into Star Health Insurance data breach

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Dissent

Ayesha Arvind reports:

The Madras High Court Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by cyber security researcher Himanshu Pathak seeking a probe into the alleged data breach at national insurance firm, Star Health Insurance.

Justice M Dhandapani dismissed Pathak’s petition after noting that a civil suit filed by Star Health last year dealing with the same issue is already pending hearing before the Court and allowing Pathak’s petition would mean permitting “parallel proceedings” to go on in the matter.

Justice Dhandapani noted that Star Health had filed the civil suit and also secured an interim injunction against Pathak restraining him from making any information retrieved from the insurance firm’s customer data base public.

Such suit, the Court noted, had been filed by Star Health after Pathak, also a customer of the said insurance company, wrote to them in December 2022 highlighting that data preserved by Star Health was vulnerable, stored improperly, and that any hacker could steal such data.

Star Health submitted that Pathak had told the insurance firm that he had hacked into their system and had access to such data and hence, it was forced to file the civil suit.

Read more at Bar and Bench.

Category: HackHealth DataNon-U.S.

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