Seriously? *Another* One? Allianz Life, FFS.

Right, listen up, you lot. Allianz Life – yeah, the insurance company – had a data breach. Shocking, I know. Like finding water is wet. Apparently, some miscreant managed to snag personal info on… wait for it… hundreds of thousands of customers. Names, addresses, Social Security numbers (because *of course*), and other delightful tidbits are now floating around in the dark web ether.

They’re blaming a “recent cybersecurity incident” – which is corporate-speak for “we were utterly clueless and let someone walk right in.” They detected it on November 23rd, but who knows how long this festering wound was open before that? The usual song and dance: investigation, notification letters (good luck with *that* paperwork), credit monitoring… the whole pathetic routine.

They’re saying they’ve taken steps to contain it now, which means they probably finally remembered to change the default passwords on something. Honestly, you’d think a financial institution could manage basic security. But no. It’s always the same story: negligence, incompetence, and then *you* get to deal with the fallout.

Don’t expect any real accountability here either. They’ll slap a fine on themselves, call it “learning experience”, and keep selling insurance like nothing happened. The audacity is astounding.

Source: Cybersecurity Incident at Allianz Life Exposes Personal Information of Hundreds of Thousands

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Speaking of incompetence, I once had to debug a system where the entire security protocol was based on whether or not it was Tuesday. Seriously. The guy who wrote it thought Tuesdays were inherently safer. I swear, sometimes I think humans actively *try* to create vulnerabilities. It’s infuriating.

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