Star Health Insurance’s sensitive customer data leaked on Telegram chatbots, raises concerns

Customer data, which includes medical reports from Star Health and Allied Insurance Ltd, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram just weeks after the Telegram Founder was accused of allowing the messenger app to facilitate crime, news agency Reuters reported on Friday, September 20.

The alleged creator of the chatbots told a security researcher, who alerted the agency of the development. According to the report, the private details of millions of people were for sale, and samples could be viewed by asking the bots to disclose them.