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Japan Units of Aflac, Zurich See 2 M. Customers' Data Breached #19341

Open swidup opened 1 year ago

swidup commented 1 year ago

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2023011000977/

swidup commented 1 year ago

https://www.finews.asia/finance/38375-zurich-insurance-suffers-hacker-attack-asia-apac

swidup commented 1 year ago

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/japan_aflac_zurich_data_breaches/

etgifford commented 10 months ago

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/data-breach-exposed-2-million-aflac-and-zurich-insurance-policyholders-records/ https://therecord.media/millions-of-aflac-zurich-insurance-customers-in-japan-have-data-leaked-after-breach https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uncovering-aflac-zurich-data-breach-protecting-japan-rajesh-rajendran

etgifford commented 10 months ago

Aflac Insurance, HQ: Tokyo, Japan, EMP: 1032, NCAIS: 52524 (insurance). The Japanese branch had a data breach of 1,323,468 records. The breach was discovered Jan 09, 2023 when Aflac was notified and validated the data posted to a criminal data breach forum was theirs. Posted were policy holder’s personal data: names, addresses, birth date, gender, insurance type, insurance number, premiums, and plan information. The data breach occurred Jan 07, 2023. It originated with a subcontractor of a third-party vendor that Aflac Japan uses for marketing purposes. Attackers gained access by exploiting the MOVEit vulnerability in a file transfer server.