Farmers Insurance says 1 million customers affected by cyberattack on third-party vendor

More than one million customers of Farmers Insurance and its subsidiaries were impacted by a cyberattack on a third-party vendor.

Farmers Insurance, Farmers Insurance Exchange and several other affiliated companies filed breach notification documents in Maine, California and Massachusetts on Friday while also providing notice on the company website. 

The company, which is itself a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group, said it was informed by a third-party vendor on May 30 that hackers accessed a database containing Farmers’ customer information. 

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