Star Health data leak case: Madras High Court dismisses appeals by Punjab-based hacker

The Madras High Court connected Wednesday (April 8, 2026) dismissed a batch of six writ appeals filed by a Punjab-based cyber information adept who had reportedly accessed delicate idiosyncratic information related to the customers of Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited.

Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan said, the appellant Himanshu Pathak was facing civilian arsenic good arsenic transgression cases for unauthorised entree of the information and hence, nary absorption could beryllium issued against the security institution astatine his instance.