Allianz Life Data Breach Affects 1.1 Million Customers

The July information breach astatine U.S. security elephantine Allianz Life allowed hackers to bargain nan individual accusation of 1.1 cardinal customers, according to information breach notification tract Have I Been Pwned.

Allianz Life disclosed nan information breach successful precocious July, confirming that hackers stole nan individual accusation of the “majority” of its 1.4 cardinal customers and its labor from a cloud-stored customer narration database. Allianz has truthful acold refused to corroborate precisely really galore group are affected by nan breach.

Have I Been Pwned, a data breach notification site that alerts group erstwhile their email reside has been caught up successful information breaches, said in a station connected Monday nan Allianz Life breach includes customers’ names, gender, day of birth, email and location addresses, and telephone numbers from a database hosted by unreality elephantine Salesforce.

Allianz Life later told nan states of Texas and Massachusetts nan hackers besides stole Social Security numbers successful nan breach.

Brett Weinberg, a spokesperson for Allianz Life, declined to remark to TechCrunch arsenic nan company’s investigation is ongoing.

Allianz Life is 1 of a bid of tech and firm giants that person been targeted successful caller months by a hacking unit known arsenic ShinyHunters, a group known for their societal engineering skills aimed astatine tricking labor into granting them entree to nan company’s databases.

Google, Cisco, airline elephantine Qantas, and retailer Pandora, and besides HR elephantine Workday arsenic reported by TechCrunch connected Monday person besides reported caller information thefts related to their Salesforce-hosted data.

The ShinyHunters pack is said to beryllium preparing a information leak tract successful an effort to extort victims into paying nan hackers to delete nan data, a maneuver often employed by ransomware gangs. The group reportedly overlaps pinch different hacking and crime groups, including Scattered Spider and The Com, a known corporate of cybercriminals who usage hacking, extortion, and sometimes threats of unit to break into networks.