Zurich data breach: 756K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-01-22
In January 2023, the Japanese arm of Zurich insurance suffered a data breach that exposed 2.6M customer records with over 756k unique email addresses. The data was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum and also included names, genders, dates of birth and details of insured vehicles. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, vehicle details. The breach dates from Jan 8, 2023; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 22, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Zurich account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
Sources
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