Thanks for sharing Bryan Foss. It’s summer and time for a data breach.

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Thanks for sharing Bryan Foss. It’s summer and time for a data breach. Allianz Life Insurance Company a subsidiary of German based Insurer Allianz, announced its been hacked.

It’s reported that On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life). The threat actor was able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majority of Allianz Life’s customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees, using a social engineering technique’

There’s that social engineering again

With reports that most of the 1.4 million U.S customers PII being acquired. One speculates if there’s a ransom going on, or a successful fail over. Most of the PII belonging to US citizen has been hacked from various sources over the years, and Allianz Life is to great a prize not to ransom.

The Allianz Life representative filed an initial breach notification with the Office of the Maine Attorney General. Customers will be notified by the 1st of August.

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@Thaddeus Dziekanowski Brian D. McCarthy Faisal Khan

Veritas GRC

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