1.1m Insurance Customers Were Exposed In A Data Breach - Here's What To Know

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Farmers Insurance suffered a awesome information breach.
• More than 1 cardinal customers were affected.
• Affected customers are receiving free in installments monitoring.

If you're a Farmers Insurance customer, you're going to want to salary attraction -- and astir apt support an oculus connected each of your important accounts.

According to a announcement connected nan Farmers website, about 1.1 cardinal customers had delicate information revealed successful a caller information breach. Compromised accusation includes customers' names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's licence numbers, and/or past 4 digits of their Social Security numbers.

While Farmers didn't explicate nan nonstop details, it said that nan incident came from a compromised third-party database. It didn't sanction nan 3rd party. 

Farmers did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

The incident happened connected May 29, and nan institution discovered it nan adjacent day, but customers are conscionable now uncovering out.

What should affected customers do

If you were a portion of this breach, you should person received a written announcement this week aliases past pinch specifications connected nan incident. But if you've changed addresses since (or conscionable don't cheque your beingness message that often), you could person missed that message. 

Farmers said it isn't alert that individual accusation was misused, but it's still encouraging customers to enactment vigilant by taking a adjacent look astatine their relationship statements and in installments reports. To help, it's providing free entree to Cyberscout Single Bureau Credit Monitoring work for 24 months. The written connection contained accusation astir really to declare this monitoring. You tin get much accusation aliases cheque your eligibility for free identity-monitoring services by calling 1-833-426-6809.

It's besides not a bad thought to cheque your in installments study pinch each 3 awesome agencies aliases moreover freeze your credit, moreover if you weren't affected by this circumstantial breach. 

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