Cybernews reports:
The Farmers Insurance Group is notifying 1,111,386 people that their personal information was exposed in a recent cyberattack earlier this year.
The American insurance giant said it began sending breach notification letters about the May 29th “security incident” out of an “abundance of caution” on August 22nd.
The breach may have involved the “personal information of certain individuals,” it said.
Farmers revealed in a notice posted on its website and also filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, that the intrusion originated with unauthorized access to a third-party vendor and a database containing Farmers’ customer information.
“The third-party vendor had monitoring tools in place, which allowed the vendor to quickly detect the activity and take appropriate containment measures, including blocking the unauthorized actor,” Farmers said.
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