The insurer Zurich has been the victim of a hacker attack in Japan. The cybercriminals stole a lot of customer data. (archive image)
Media reports on Monday reported the outflow of data from 2.6 million customers from the East Asian country. In fact, data from 757,463 former customers of a local car insurance product are affected, as the insurance group specified to AWP on Tuesday.
“We are in contact with regulators and local authorities and are about to start informing our customers in Japan,” the Zurich media office told AWP. There are no indications that customer data outside of Japan is affected.
The origin of the data leak lies with an external service provider, the spokesman said. According to a media release from the group, the published data includes names, gender, date of birth, email addresses, policy number and more.
In an interview with the “Financial Times” (online) Zurich CEO Mario Greco recently said that systemic, far-reaching cyber attacks, for example on critical infrastructure, would not be insurable. However, the incident in Japan was not an attack of a systemic nature, the media office said.
(SDA)