Taking multiple steps to ensure such data breach incidents never occur: Star Health MD

Standalone health insurance provider Star Health Insurance Ltd has taken up multiple measures including stepping up of its security mechanism following an alleged data breach recently, a top official said on Tuesday.

Star Health Insurance Managing Director and CEO Anand Roy said the company has taken up ‘multiple measures’ to ensure that such kind of incidents ‘never occur again.’ In October, Star Health suffered a data breach in which data of about 3.1 crore customers including mobile phone numbers, PAN, addresses and pre-existing medical conditions were allegedly available on a website created by a hacker identified to be xenZen.