There is an update to the previously reported breach affecting Allianz Life customers. Bleeping Computer reports:
Hackers have stolen the personal information of 1.1 million individuals in a Salesforce data theft attack, which impacted U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life in July.
Allianz Life has nearly 2,000 employees in the United States and is a subsidiary of Allianz SE, which has over 128 million customers worldwide and ranks as the world’s 82nd largest company based on revenue.
As the company disclosed last month, information belonging to the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers was stolen by attackers who gained access to a third-party cloud CRM system on July 16th.
While Allianz Life did not name the provider of the compromised cloud-based CRM system at the time of the disclosure, BleepingComputer first reported that the breach was part of a wave of Salesforce-targeted data theft attacks linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group.
Since the attack, ShinyHunters has leaked the databases stolen from the company’s Salesforce instances, containing roughly 2.8 million data records for individual customers and business partners, including wealth management companies, financial advisors, and brokers.
Read more at Bleeping Computer.
