Hackers have stolen personal information of a majority of insurance firm Allianz Life’s 1.4 million customers in North America, its parent company said.
The German parent company added that the hackers were “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”.
At this point everyone should be given new Social security numbers and freash starts. Because all our data is on the dark web.
Honestly, this one is pretty small potatoes.
A mere million or two.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/534628/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-21st-century.html
Not to imply that the broader security situation isn’t a problem, mind.