The US Insurance Giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers have stolen personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals and workers during a breach of data in mid -July.
When she arrived from TechCrunch, Allianz Life Brett Weinberg spokesman confirmed the breach.
“On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third -party -based CRM system used by Allianz Life,” referring to a customer relationship management database (CRM) containing information about its customers. “The threat actor was able to obtain personally recognizable data related to the majority of Allianz Life customers, financial professionals and to choose Allianz Life officials, using a social engineering technique,” the spokesman said.
The company revealed the data breach on Saturday in a legally required deposit With Maine’s Attorney General, but does not immediately provide a number of Allianz Life customers, 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 it informed the FBI and added that it had no “evidence” that any other systems on its network were at stake.
The insurance giant would not say if he had received any announcement from hackers, such as a solution note. The company will also not attribute the breach to a hacking group.
Allianz Life is the last company last month that has been violated during a wave of data violations aimed at the broader insurance industry, including AFLAC, an important supplementary health insurance provider. Google security researchers said in June that they “knew multiple invasions” across the insurance sector attributed to the scattered spider, a collective collective collection of hackers and techniques based on social engineering techniques, such as misleading and calling them to access a company.
Prior to the targeting of insurance companies, the scattered Spider hackers have seen the UK retail industry, as well as in the aviation and transport sectors, and are historically known for the remuneration aimed at Silicon Valley’s technology giants.
According to Maine’s deposition, Allianz plans to start alerting people affected around 1 August.
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