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 nationwi

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