Jonathan Greig reports:
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.
The database contained names, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of people’s Social Security numbers. The insurance company said 1,071,172 people were affected.
Read more at The Record.
Although the insurer did not respond to The Record’s inquiries about who the vendor was, DataBreaches contacted ShinyHunters to inquire whether this attack was part of the Salesforce campaign that has affected other insurers. In response, “Shiny” stated that yes, this was the work of ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider.