U.S. insurer Allianz Life said a cyberattack disclosed in late July compromised personal data belonging to about 1.1 million customers, according to breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned. Information taken from a Salesforce-hosted customer database includes names, email and home addresses, phone numbers, gender and dates of birth. The company, which previously confirmed that the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers and some employees were affected, is offering two years of identity-monitoring services while its investigation continues. In a separate incident, Australia’s TPG Telecom is examining unauthorized access to an order-management system used by its iiNet subsidiary. The company said an intruder extracted roughly 280,000 active email addresses, 20,000 landline numbers and 10,000 usernames, street addresses and passwords. TPG removed the access over the weekend and has hired external cybersecurity specialists; it does not expect the breach to have spread to its broader networks. The disclosures underscore the persistence of large-scale data thefts targeting corporations worldwide, following recent attacks on technology, healthcare and airline companies. Regulators and security analysts say the surge is pressing firms to harden cloud-based systems and improve employee training against social-engineering tactics.
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