Minneapolis – Pirates had access to personal data on the majority of 1.4 million customers from the Allianz life insurance company in North America, the company confirmed on Saturday.
Allianz Life, based in Minneapolis, a subsidiary of Allianz is based in Munich, Germany, said that the data violation had taken place on July 16 when a “malicious threat player” had access to a third -party cloud -based system used by the company.
“The threat actor has been able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majority of Allianz Life’s customers, financial professionals and allianz Life selection employees, using a social engineering technique,” said Allianz Life in a statement. “We have taken immediate measures to contain and mitigate the problem and informed the FBI.”
The company said that its own systems were not accessible, just the third party platform.
Allianz Life said that his investigation was underway and that the company began to reach out to those affected. He said the incident only implies ALLIANZ LIFE in the United States, not in other ALLIANZ business entities.
In the case of data violations, a “social engineering technique” generally involves using the cunning to access. The spokesman Brett Weinberg said he couldn’t provide details because they were still investigating.
Allianz Life too reported THE break to several other authorities, including the Maine prosecutor’s office. A file on the agency’s website indicated that the company had discovered the violation the day after it and that it will offer the 24 months affected by protecting identity and credit supervision.
Allianz Life was known as the North American life and victim until it was acquired by the German conglomerate Allianz in 1979 and changed its name to Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. It has nearly 2,000 employees in the United States, the majority working in Minnesota, According to his website.
This is one of the five North American subsidiaries of the World Financial Services group in Munich Allianz SE, which says that it serves more than 125 million customers worldwide.