The American insurance giant Allianz Life confirmed TechCrunch that hackers have stolen personal data of “most” of their customers, financial professionals and employees during data violations in mid -July.
When TechCrunch reached, Allianz Life Brett Weinberg spokesman confirmed the violation.
“On July 16, 2025, an actor for harmful threats has gained access to the CRM system based on the third place used by Allianz Life,” he starts with a customer -related database (CRM) containing information about his customers. “The threat actor was able to obtain personal data concerning most Allianz Life customers, financial professionals and select Allianz Life employees using social engineering technology,” the spokesman said.
On Saturday, the company published a violation of data in the legally required submission to the General Prosecutor Maine, but did not provide extremely much how many Allianz Life customers are affected. According to the spokesman, Allianz Life has 1.4 million customers. Its parent company, Allianz, has more than 125 million customers worldwide.
Allianz Life said he had announced the FBI and added that he had “no evidence” that any other system in its network was endangered.
The insurance giant would not say whether he had received some communication from the hackers, such as a ransom note. The company would also not dispute the breaking of the hacker group.
Allianz Life is the latest company in the last month that has been hacked during a wave of violations of data aimed at the wider insurance industry, included Aflac, the main health insurance provider. Google Security Scientists said in June that we “aware of more intrusion” into an insurance sector awarded to an empty -class Spider, a team of hackers and techniques relying on social engineering techniques such as abuse and deceiving auxiliary and deceiving.
Before targeting at insurance companies, hackers of spiders were seen focused on the British retail industry, the air and transport sectors and are historically known for hacks focused on Silicon Valley technology giants.
According to Maine, Allianz plans to start notification of affected individuals around 1 August.
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