The Madras High Court on Friday made a minor modification to an order it passed on September 24 barring Telegram Messenger from allowing its platform to be used by unethical hackers to share or sell sensitive customer data allegedly stolen from the computer systems of Chennai-based Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited.

Justice K. Kumaresh Babu made the amendment after lawyer Thriyambak J. Kannan, representing Telegram FZ LLC, told the court that it would be difficult for the messaging service provider to prevent the data from being published on its platform, but the disputed data could be blocked when and when served on his client by Star Health Insurance.

Senior counsel Krishna Ravindran, representing Star Health Insurance, agreed that his client would send emails to Telegram when they encountered instances of sensitive information being shared on its platform and Mr. Kannan gave an undertaking that the relevant messages would be removed or blocked immediately upon receipt of e-mail from the insurance company.

The judge made it clear that Telegram Messenger must also provide the IP addresses from which such disputed data is shared on its platform because the insurance company had filed a civil suit against unknown hackers also identified by the name Xenzen and so on. He adjourned the further hearing of the civil suit, filed against the sharing of customer data on public platforms, by two weeks.