This headline is somewhat misleading.
They mean most of Allianz’s (1.4m) North America customers, not data of most people in the US.
First read of the headline, I thought it was another Equifax level thing - where a single company has way too much data.
welp, hoping someone logs in and pays the bil
When you need insurance to protect you from your other insurance:
At this point I assume most data breaches are just a criminal conspiracy between the corpo and data brokers.
No corporation bothers securing their data to a reasonable extent, so naturally they might as well choose the additional revenue stream of an “accidental” “breach” which is extremely valuable to surveillance capitalism. It’s not like they face any significant consequences 99% of the time…
… unless money is involved
Stop trying to stop bad guys from being punished.
Yeah but like why not? Acting stupid is a thing.
“we should put social security numbers on the blockchain” - andrew yang, probably
At this point everyone should be given new Social security numbers and freash starts. Because all our data is on the dark web.
That’d end up being breached and disseminated very quickly, especially under this administration. They’d vibe code it and all the data would be publicly posted in the source code.
We created a totally secure and definitely unguessable (Probably Unique)™ identifier system - an MD5 hash of FirstnameLastname-DOB
Oh also with this new totally flawless system, you’re now legally obligated to recite I’m full your (Probably Unique)™ 32-character hash to any ICE agents who request it. Failure to do so will result in detainment.
For immigrants, we will happily tattoo your (Probably Unique)™ hash on your wrist for your convenience.
This, or it would be entirely outsourced to the highest commercial bidder which also happens to be something like Google, Meta or Palantir.
Honestly, this one is pretty small potatoes.
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”.
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.
