US insurance coverage agency Allianz Life has advised the media that hackers stole private information of the “majority” of its clients and employees earlier this month.
The corporate says {that a} hacker gained entry to an unnamed third-party cloud-based CRM utilized by Allianz Life, utilizing a social engineering assault.
The agency hasn’t mentioned if it has acquired a ransom demand, and it hasn’t shared any particulars on who the hackers might need been.
Nonetheless, we’ve seen different insurance coverage corporations focused just lately, together with Aflac.
What’s the betting that that is hackers as soon as once more utilizing the Scattered Spider playbook – calling up help groups posing as clients or staff, pretending to be locked out of their accounts, and tricking help employees into granting them entry.
Perhaps with a slice of phishing, SIM swapping, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) bombing too…
