At the end of July, the cyber attack on the American insurance giant Allianz Life disrupted personal data of 1.1 million customers, according to a report published on the spot notification of data disturbance on Monday.
Allianz Life reported the public about data violations at the end of July and confirmed that hackers had stolen personal data of most of their 1.4 million US customers, selected employees and financial professionals.
Allianz Life informed the states of Texas and Massachusetts that hackers managed to steal social security numbers (SSN) in violation.
Depending on the fact that I was pwned, hacker information includes customer names, addresses, phone numbers AE -Maily.
How did the data break?
The data was threatened after the actor infiltrated the cloud relationship with customers (CRM) of a third party.
Customers were not the only victims of the attack, as it also influenced the insurance companies, although the exact number is still unknown.
Allianz Life spokesman refused to express himself because the investigation is underway. However, the spokesman assured that the company would provide reserved resources, including two -year identity monitoring services to help the individuals soon revealed the Reuters report.
What says I was a pwned report?
Allianz Life Breach revealed sensitive information about disabled people such as their names, gender, date of birth, e -mail and home addresses and phone numbers, from the database organized by Cloud Giant Salesforce, said Message I posted I was pwned.
When I was pwned is a website for notification of data violations that warn people when their e -mail addresses were displayed in known data violations.
A series of cyber attacks in the insurance sector
Allianz Life is one of several companies that have become the victims of cyber attacks, specifically focused on insurance. Others, including Aflac, also reported similar security incidents.
Google Security scientists have recently pointed out a group known as Scattered Spider as an active hacker gang across the insurance sector. It is known that these hackers are strongly relying on social engineering, including issuing IT employees or IT employees over the telephone to get access to a sensitive database of companies.
(Tagstotranslate) Google Security Scientists
