Allianz Life Says ‘majority’ Of Customers’ Personal Data Stolen In Cyberattack

U.S. security elephantine Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole nan individual accusation of nan “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and labor during a mid-July information breach.

The institution disclosed nan information breach connected Saturday successful a legally required filing pinch Maine’s lawyer general, but did not instantly supply a number of really galore Allianz Life customers are affected. Its genitor company, Allianz, has much than 125 cardinal backstage and firm customers worldwide, according to its website.

When reached by TechCrunch, Allianz Life spokesperson Brett Weinberg confirmed nan breach.

“On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat character gained entree to a third-party, cloud-based CRM strategy utilized by Allianz Life,” referring to a customer narration guidance (CRM) database containing accusation connected its customers. “The threat character was capable to get personally identifiable information related to nan mostly of Allianz Life’s customers, financial professionals, and prime Allianz Life employees, utilizing a societal engineering technique,” nan spokesperson said.

Allianz Life said it notified nan FBI, and added it had “no evidence” that immoderate different systems connected its web were compromised. 

The security elephantine would not opportunity if it had received immoderate connection from nan hackers, specified arsenic a ransom note. The institution besides would not property nan breach to a hacking group. 

Allianz Life is nan latest institution successful nan past period to person been hacked during a activity of information breaches targeting nan wider security industry, including Aflac, a awesome supplier of supplementary wellness insurance. Security researchers astatine Google said successful June that they were “aware of aggregate intrusions” crossed nan security sector attributed to Scattered Spider, a corporate of hackers and techniques that trust connected societal engineering techniques, specified arsenic deceptively calling and tricking helpdesks into granting them entree to a company’s network. 

Prior to targeting security companies, nan Scattered Spider hackers were seen targeting nan U.K. unit industry, arsenic good as nan aviation and proscription sectors, and are historically known for hacks targeting Silicon Valley exertion giants.

Per nan Maine filing, Allianz plans to statesman notifying affected individuals astir August 1.

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