Hackers stole the personal data of 1.1 million American customers of insurance company Allianz Life last month, according to an Aug. 18 update posted on X by a data breach notification website.
“Allianz attributed the attack to ‘a social engineering technique’ which targeted data on Salesforce and resulted in the exposure of 1.1M unique email addresses, names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and physical addresses,” Have I Been Pwned said on its website.
Allianz, headquartered in Minneapolis, has 1.4 million customers across the United States.
In a government notification, Allianz said the breach occurred on July 16, with the company discovering the incident a day later. The total number of affected customers was “unknown” at the time….