A July data breaches at US insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the identity of 1.1 million customers, according to the data breach notification site.
Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers had stolen the “majority” of their 1.4 million customers and employees from their cloud store's customer relationship database. Allianz had previously refused to accurately check the number of people affected by the violation.
I used Pwned. The Data Breach Notification Site, a data breach notification site, warns people when their email addresses get caught up in a data breach, and in a post on Monday, Allianz Life Breach includes the customer name, gender, date of birth, email, home address and phone number from a database hosted by Cloud Giant Salesforce.
AllianzLife later told states in Texas and Massachusetts that hackers also stole Social Security numbers for violations.
Allianz Life spokesman Brett Weinberg declined to comment on TechCrunch as the company's investigation is ongoing.
Allianz Life is one of a series of technology and corporate giants that have been targeted in recent months by a hacking crew known as Shinyhunters, a group known for its social engineering skills that aims to allow employees to access the company's database.
Google, Cisco, airline giant Qantas and retailer Pandora (as reported by TechCrunch on Monday, HR's huge workdays are also reporting recent data thefts related to data hosted on Salesforce.
The Shinyhunters gang are said to be preparing data leak sites to force victims to pay hackers to remove data, a tactic often adopted by ransomware gangs. The group reportedly overlaps with other hacking and criminal groups, including scattered spiders and com.
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