{"id":5200,"date":"2025-08-19T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/allianz-life-data-breach-affects-1-1-million-customers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:04:19","slug":"allianz-life-data-breach-affects-1-1-million-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/allianz-life-data-breach-affects-1-1-million-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The July data breach at U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 1.1 million customers, according to data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers stole the personal information of the &ldquo;majority&rdquo; of its 1.4 million customers and its employees from a cloud-stored customer relationship database. Allianz has so far refused to confirm exactly how many people are affected by the breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I Been Pwned, a data breach notification site that alerts people when their email address has been caught up in data breaches, said in a post on Monday the Allianz Life breach includes customers&rsquo; names, gender, date of birth, email and home addresses, and phone numbers from a database hosted by cloud giant Salesforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allianz Life later told the states of Texas and Massachusetts the hackers also stole Social Security numbers in the breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brett Weinberg, a spokesperson for Allianz Life, declined to comment to TechCrunch as the company&rsquo;s investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allianz Life is one of a series of tech and corporate giants that have been targeted in recent months by a hacking crew known as ShinyHunters, a group known for their social engineering skills aimed at tricking employees into granting them access to the company&rsquo;s databases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google, Cisco, airline giant Qantas, and retailer Pandora &mdash; and also HR giant Workday, as reported by TechCrunch on Monday &mdash; have also reported recent data thefts related to their Salesforce-hosted data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ShinyHunters gang is said to be preparing a data leak site in an attempt to extort victims into paying the hackers to delete the data, a tactic often employed by ransomware gangs. The group reportedly overlaps with other hacking and crime groups,including Scattered Spider and The Com, a known collective of cybercriminals who use hacking, extortion, and sometimes threats of violence to break into networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We&rsquo;re always looking to evolve, and by providing some insight into your perspective and feedback into TechCrunch and our coverage and events, you can help us! Fill out&nbsp;<\/em><em>this survey<\/em><em>&nbsp;to let us know how we&rsquo;re doing and get the chance to win a prize in return!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July data breach at U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 1.1 million customers, according to data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned. Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers stole the personal information of the &ldquo;majority&rdquo; of its 1.4 million customers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/allianz-life-data-breach-affects-1-1-million-customers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}