Another Fucking Data Breach. You’re Welcome.

Right, so Allianz, one of the biggest insurance companies on the planet, got their shit spectacularly compromised. Millions – and I mean millions – of records are potentially exposed. We’re talking names, addresses, account numbers…the usual crap that makes identity theft a delightful hobby for scumbags.

Apparently, some data was sloshing around on the dark web thanks to a bunch of compromised files. They’re blaming it on a dodgy vendor (of course they are), and claiming it’s not *all* their fault. Yeah, right. Like you can just hand your customer data off to anyone and expect everything to be sunshine and rainbows.

They’ve been “investigating” since February – February! What the hell have they been doing? Counting paperclips? They’re now notifying affected customers (eventually), offering credit monitoring, because that fixes *everything*. Honestly, it’s a pathetic attempt at damage control.

The scale is still unclear, but it’s big. Really big. Expect phishing campaigns galore and a whole lot of pissed-off people. And you know what? They probably weren’t even using multi-factor authentication properly. Idiots. The whole thing just reeks of incompetence.

Source: Millions Allegedly Affected in Allianz Insurance Breach

And a Story For Ya…

I once had to clean up after a sysadmin who thought “security through obscurity” was a valid strategy. He’d renamed all the critical system files to things like “important_stuff.txt” and “secret_data.doc”. The attacker walked right in, found everything within five minutes. Seriously. Five. Minutes. People are unbelievable.

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