Hacker hired Telangana man to courier threats to Star Health Insurance MD

pCHENNAI The case of breach of data of 31 crore customers of the Chennaiheadquartered Star Health Insurance has taken a fresh turn with its MD Anand Roy his wife Akhila Shetty Roy and CFO Nilesh Kambli allegedly getting threat messages delivered via courier from HyderabadppA probe by the TN cyber crime wing has found that the hacker known by his online identity Xenzen who had released the data in public domain in September 2024 had hired a Hyderabadbased youth to send threats to the companys officials in February 2025ppThe youth identified as Mohammed Irfan was found from Telangana and arrested recently by the cyber crime officials under sections of data theft and the IT Act Xenzen contacted Irfan through a private messenger app with endtoend encryption and instructed him to send threat letters and bullets inside tiffin boxes to the company officials sources saidppMultiple such couriers were sent by Irfan under the pseudonym Adithya Sharma for which he was paid Rs 20000 by Xenzen The cyber wing zeroed in on Irfan by tracing the UPI payments and linked mobile number he used for booking couriers sources addedppThe cyber crime wing had begun probe after the firm filed a complaint with them in September 2024 alleging that the hacker had threatened to leak all customers policy and insurance documents in public domain He also demanded 68000 USC cryptocurrency as ransom ppEventually Xenzen released the data and alleged the firms chief information security officer CISO was involved in the breach The CISO was later given a clean chit after an internal audit by the firmppFollow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp ppDownload the TNIE app to stay with us and follow the latestppppCopyright newindianexpresscom 2024 All rights reserved ppp