{"id":38738,"date":"2025-07-28T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=38738"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:50:43","slug":"allianz-life-hacked-majority-of-1-6-million-customers-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/07\/28\/allianz-life-hacked-majority-of-1-6-million-customers-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Allianz Life hacked, majority of 1.6 million customers affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sicherheit_klein.jpg\" alt=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/allianz-life-bestaetigt-hack-mehrheit-der-16-mio-kunden-betroffen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]The US subsidiary of the Allianz Group, Allianz Life, has confirmed a hack with data leakage. Readers had already pointed this out in the past few days. The majority of the 1.6 million US customers have had their personal data affected.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Several media picked up on the incident in articles on July 28, 2025. The first reports were probably based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/agviewer\/content\/ag\/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318\/0446bff3-a013-43ed-82fa-bca6bb157de1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report to US regulatory authorities<\/a>. An Allianz spokesperson confirmed the hack to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/26\/allianz-life-says-majority-of-customers-personal-data-stolen-in-cyberattack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Techcrunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The spokesperson was referring to a customer relationship management (CRM) database that contains information about the company's customers. \"The threat actor was able to use a social engineering technique to obtain personal data about the majority of Allianz Life customers, financial professionals and selected Allianz Life employees,\" reads the confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The Register has compiled some information in this article. It is unclear who was responsible for the hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]The US subsidiary of the Allianz Group, Allianz Life, has confirmed a hack with data leakage. Readers had already pointed this out in the past few days. The majority of the 1.6 million US customers have had their personal data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/07\/28\/allianz-life-hacked-majority-of-1-6-million-customers-affected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[447,69],"class_list":["post-38738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-hack","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38739,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions\/38739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}