Religare Health Insurance Data Breach (2020)

Dark web sweepers Cyble has claimed that internal data of Gurugram-based Religare Health Insurance has lost 5 Mn records, which is now up for sale. The US-based cybersecurity firm has claimed that the hacked data includes details of Religare, its agents, several sensitive information of the company’s clients, including their names, phone numbers, email id, date of birth. According to a blog post, published by Cyble, the leaked database also contains details about insurance policies like customer ID, policy number, start date, end date, along with the name, sum and renewal amount of the policy taken by the customers. Besides this, the personal and official details of the agents and employees have also been leaked. It includes full name, mobile number, date of birth, usernames, password hashes, individual authorisation keys, official email IDs, email signatures having office address and personal mobile numbers, last login and last logout, Internal IP address through which they connected to the portal. Religare Health Insurance has assured that they are working on the raised concerns, saying “since inception, Religare Health Insurance has consistently invested in the effective application of technology to deliver excellence in customer servicing. We continue to implement technology-driven processes that further drive distribution and servicing efficiencies.”