U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks.
Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide.
The company disclosed the data breach in an advisory on its website, saying that its database at a third-party vendor was breached on May 29, 2025.
“On May 30, 2025, one of Farmers’ third-party vendors alerted Farmers to suspicious activity involving an unauthorized actor accessing one of the vendor’s databases containing Farmers customer information (the “Incident”),” reads the data breach notification on its website.
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The company says that its investigation determined that customers’Â names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and/or last four digits of Social Security numbers were stolen during the breach.
Farmers began sending data breach notifications to impacted individuals on August 22, with a sample notification [1, 2] shared with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, stating that a combined total of 1,111,386 customers were impacted.
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Source: Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack
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