CYBERCRIMINALAL AFLAC, customer data can be in danger

AFLAC said on Friday that Internet criminals have violated their computer systems, and may showcase some personal data – including social security and health care information – for an unknown number of Americans and the most recent sign in a modern series of online attacks against insurance companies.

Georgia’s insurance provider, Georgia, said that he had discovered an activity likened to her American networks, and she quickly responded to her and managed to stop infiltrators online “within hours.” AFLAC added that her business is still working and that her systems were not infected with Ransomware.

AFLAC is the latest and largest insurance company to date by Internet criminals. Philadelphia insurance and Erie Insurance Electronic attacks this month and have not yet resumed the full operations.

“This attack, like many insurance companies currently facing, was caused by a set of advanced electronic crimes,” Aralak said in a statement Without providing details to support this claim. “This was part of an electronic crime campaign against the insurance industry.”

AFLAC said he is working with cybersecurity experts out of investigation into the breach. It is in the process of determining any of its files has been hacked and the number of people who have been affected. Files that can be affected can be affected by customer data such as social security numbers, insurance demands, health information and other personal details. The company said that information about AFLAC employees, agents and other people involved in its American business could be at risk.

Although this investigation is still in its early stages, AFLAC said that it seems that the attackers managed to reach his networks through a social engineering attack, as instead of storming the computer system attackers often a person in power, such as an executive employee or to deceive an employee in the distribution of legitimate login data.

John Holtakistist, the Google Senior Intelligence Group, said the recent attacks against insurance companies “carry all the signs.” Specific spider -spider -spider crime groupThat were linked to prominent attacks against financial services, communications, communications, hotels and hotels.

“Given the history of this actor in focusing on a sector simultaneously, the insurance industry should be at a state of utmost alert, especially for social engineering plans targeting assistance offices and communication centers,” Holkwist said in a statement.

Although it has not yet been determined exactly who was affected and the extent of bad damage, AFLAC has taken the independent step already of providing free credit monitoring, protecting identity theft and 24-month medical shield coverage for customers who call the call center on the number 855-361-0305.

AFLAC is the largest additional health insurance provider in the United States and has a global customer base of about 50 million people.