Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of consumers’ private knowledge stolen in cyberattack

U.S. insurance coverage large Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the private data of the “majority” of its clients, monetary professionals, and staff throughout a mid-July knowledge breach.

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

“On July 16, 2025, a malicious risk actor gained entry to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system utilized by Allianz Life,” referring to a buyer relationship administration (CRM) database containing data on its clients. “The risk actor was in a position to get hold of personally identifiable knowledge associated to the vast majority of Allianz Life’s clients, monetary professionals, and choose Allianz Life staff, utilizing a social engineering approach,” the spokesperson mentioned.

The corporate disclosed the info breach on Saturday in a legally required submitting with Maine’s legal professional common, however didn’t instantly present various what number of Allianz Life clients are affected. In response to the spokesperson, Allianz Life has 1.4 million clients. Its father or mother firm, Allianz, has greater than 125 million clients worldwide.

Allianz Life mentioned it notified the FBI, and added it had “no proof” that some other programs on its community had been compromised. 

The insurance coverage large wouldn’t say if it had acquired any communication from the hackers, akin to a ransom word. The corporate additionally wouldn’t attribute the breach to a hacking group. 

Allianz Life is the most recent firm prior to now month to have been hacked throughout a wave of information breaches focusing on the broader insurance coverage business, together with Aflac, a serious supplier of supplementary medical health insurance. Safety researchers at Google mentioned in June that they had been “conscious of a number of intrusions” throughout the insurance coverage sector attributed to Scattered Spider, a collective of hackers and methods that depend on social engineering methods, akin to deceptively calling and tricking helpdesks into granting them entry to an organization’s community. 

Previous to focusing on insurance coverage corporations, the Scattered Spider hackers had been seen focusing on the U.Okay. retail business, in addition to the aviation and transportation sectors, and are traditionally identified for hacks focusing on Silicon Valley know-how giants.

Per the Maine submitting, Allianz plans to start notifying affected people round August 1.

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