{"id":940462,"date":"2025-06-21T11:32:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940462"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:02:54","slug":"personal-info-of-customers-compromised-insurer-aflac-probes-data-breach-incident-by-sophisticated-cybercrime-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/21\/personal-info-of-customers-compromised-insurer-aflac-probes-data-breach-incident-by-sophisticated-cybercrime-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal info of customers compromised? Insurer Aflac probes data breach incident by &#8216;sophisticated cybercrime group&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aflac revealed on Friday that it had experienced a cybersecurity breach by a \u201csophisticated cybercrime group,\u201d in which personal information of its customers may have been compromised, making it the latest insurer to fall victim to a cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>Without specifying a name, the health and life insurance company, in its statement said the breach \u2014 detected on June 12 \u2014 was carried out by a \u201csophisticated cybercrime group,\u201d that used &#8220;social engineering tactics&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aflac revealed on Friday that it had experienced a cybersecurity breach by a \u201csophisticated cybercrime group,\u201d in which personal information of its customers may have been compromised, making it the latest insurer to fall victim to a cyberattack. Without specifying a name, the health and life insurance company, in its statement said the breach \u2014 detected on June 12 \u2014 was carried out by a \u201csophisticated cybercrime group,\u201d that used &#8220;social engineering tactics&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}