No violation by chief security officer: Star Health

CHENNAI: A forensic investigation by an independent firm that went into the allegations made by a hacker against Star Health Insurance 's chief information security officer has said that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by the CISO .

The firm, an expert in cybersecurity matters, has concluded that the alleged communication between the threat actor and CISO was fabricated by the threat actor and there were no links between the CISO and the incident, Star Health Insurance informed the stock exchange on Monday. Earlier, the hacker, whom the company refers to as a threat actor (an unknown persons), had charged that the CISO was behind the company's massive customer data breach .

The risk management committee and IT committee of the board of the company (committees) in their meeting on Monday discussed the issue.