HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Farmers Insurance

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 4, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Farmers Insurance →3 incidents on file

Farmers Insurance reported that between January 20, 2021, and February 12, 2021, unknown malicious actors targeted its online automobile insurance quoting tool. The actors used personal information (name, address, date of birth) to obtain driver's license numbers via the system. Farmers took immediate steps to prevent access and is providing credit monitoring and fraud assistance to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

Jan 20, 2021

Begins

May 4, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7c6d4bc1beac18292021-05-02 · +2dVerified

Name: Farmers Insurance
norm: farmers insurance

Name: Farmers Insurance
norm: farmers insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jan 20, 2021 – Feb 12, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Took immediate steps to prevent access to personal information
Retained CyberScout to assist with questions and problems
Providing Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Triple Bureau Credit Report services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance through Cyberscout
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 2 · first

California State AG+2d · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-540538
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 4, 2021
Raw hash: 37549342ccc039a6542bcb684e56940404b75d48c40f2fa54104a1c5516ec5a0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFarmers Insurance

Victim entityFarmers Insurance

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseTook immediate steps to prevent access to personal information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov