Insurance company Allianz Life got hacked in the middle of last month. At the time, the company said a majority of its 1.4 million US customers’ data were stolen as a result. More recently, a narrower number has been reported, courtesy of breach notification site Have I Been Pwned.
According to the site, persona data about 1.1 million customers of Allianz Life in the US has been exposed. Compromised details include “unique email addresses, names, genders, date of birth, phone numbers and physical addresses”.
The global Allianz umbrella has over 125 million customers worldwide. For what it’s worth, the hack looks to have affected only US customers of the insurance company. Reuters cites a spokesperson who says that the company will be providing dedicated resources, including two years of identity monitoring services, to assist impacted individuals.
TechCrunch reports that the hack was perpetrated by a crew known as ShinyHunters. The report claims that the crew specialises in social engineering, tricking insiders into providing them with granting them access to sensitive info.
The compromised private info was also gleamed from a database hosted by cloud company Salesforce. Coincidentally, there have been prior hacks that went through the same channel, including one suffered by Google.
(Source: Have I Been Pwned, Reuters, TechCrunch)
