Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Americans: What To Know

Source: Newsweek

Published Aug 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM EDT


Farmers Insurance, one of the country's largest insurers of homes, vehicles, and small businesses, revealed late last week that it has fallen prey to a third-party cyberattack which could have exposed the sensitive data of 1.1 million customers. "We recently discovered that an unauthorized third party briefly accessed a vendor's system that contained some Farmers' customer information," the company said in a statement shared with Newsweek. "The incident involved only limited information from certain customers."

While the consequences for affected customers are not yet clear, the data breach exposes the vulnerability of insurance companies and their customers to such attacks. Farmers serves about 10 million households around the country and counts 19 million insurance policies nationwide, according to Insurance Business Mag, covering vehicles, homes, life, and commercial activities.

What Do We Know About The Cyberattack?

The data breach was notified by both Farmers New World Life Insurance and Farmers Group, its parent company, with filings to state regulators. A filing from Farmers New World Life Insurance to the Maine Attorney General's Office said that 40,000 individuals were affected by the data breach; another filing from Farmers Group said that as many as 1,071,172 policyholders were impacted.

Crucially, the data breach occurred about three months ago, long before Farmers disclosed the cyberattack with a notice on its website. Farmers said it was not directly targeted, but that it was informed by a third-party vendor on May 30 that a database containing Farmers' policyholders information had been accessed illegally the day before.

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