Allianz SE

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History

2025: Hacking the company's IT infrastructure

In mid-August 2025, it became known that cybercriminals hacked the American company Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life), which specializes in life insurance. During the hacker invasion, the personal data of almost all customers was stolen.

Allianz Life is part of the Allianz SE group, the largest German insurance company that serves more than 128 million customers worldwide. It is known that the cyber incident occurred on July 16, 2025. Then the hackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) system, which Allianz Life uses in its activities.

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The attackers managed to steal the personal data of most clients, financial specialists and individual employees of Allianz Life using social engineering methods, the affected company said in a statement.

Allianz Life services as of 2025 are used by approximately 1.4 million customers. Reportedly, the hackers had information about 1.1 million of them at their disposal. The company immediately after the discovery of the invasion took the necessary measures to protect its IT infrastructure and notified law enforcement agencies, as well as the FBI, about the cyber incident. It is emphasized that the attackers failed to gain access to the Allianz Life network or other systems of the company, including the insurance policy administration platform.

According to the Securityweek.com resource, behind the attack are the cybercriminal groups Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters, which work together (and, according to some reports, even united). The attackers conducted a large-scale campaign using social engineering. Stolen information can be used to organize various fraudulent schemes.^[1]

2023: Loss of €435 million from the sale of control in the Russian business Allianz

The loss from the sale of Allianz's 50.1% stake in Russian business amounted to 435 million euros, follows from the report of the German insurance group, which was published in August 2023. Read more here.

2022: Announcement of the sale of Russian business

On June 3, 2022, the German insurance group Allianz announced the sale of its Russian business to Interholding, which owns Zetta Insurance LLC. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Read more here.

1990: Expansion into Russia and Eastern Europe

In 1990, Allianz came to Russia. Since 2012, Alliance JSC has been operating on the Russian market - under a single global brand Allianz.

In 1990, the company became the state insurer of the GDR. After that, several branches were opened in Central and Eastern Europe.

1985: Transformation into an international holding

International expansion continued, with offices in Britain, Holland, Spain, the United States and Brazil. In 1985, Allianz was transformed into an international insurance holding.

1956: Start of data processing on IBM machines

In 1956, Allianz was one of the first to use a computer data processing system on IBM machines.

1922: Allianz Life subsidiary founded to insure individuals

Main article: Allianz Life (Alliance Life)

In 1922, Allianz-Life, a subsidiary of Allianz-Life Insurance, was founded, which specialized in insurance for individuals. Allianz began to actively strengthen its position in the German market, several companies and banks in Germany were acquired. Even then, the company used the latest technical developments in its work: a laboratory was created to study damage to various materials, which later grew into the Allianz Technology Center.

1912: Payments to victims and victims of the Titanic crash

In 1912, a second test followed - the Titanic sank, and the company paid insurance compensation to the victims and relatives of the victims of the disaster.

1906: Record payouts after the San Francisco earthquake

In 1906, Allianz passed its first serious financial test - it paid insurance compensation to the victims and relatives of those killed in the San Francisco earthquake.

1895: Berlin Stock Exchange Stock Offering

In 1895, Allianz shares first began trading on the Berlin Stock Exchange.

1893: London Branch Opened

In 1893, the first foreign branch of the company was opened in London.

1890: Establishment of a company in Germany

Allianz Insurance Company was founded in 1890.