India, Jan. 11 -- An employee of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. inadvertently uploaded undisclosed information about third quarter earnings as a personal WhatsApp status, days ahead of the planned release.

The designated person, who broadcast the information after market hours on Friday, deleted the "status" within an hour, the unit of ICICI Bank Ltd. said in a stock exchange filing on Saturday (10 January 2026). ICICI Lombard said it has started an internal inquiry, as per rules of India's securities market regulator.

It was the latest such mishap in India's $5.2 trillion stock market, Hatsun Agro Product Ltd. flagged a similar case of an employee accidentally leaking a draft of quarterly results on WhatsApp.

The Securities and E...