Farmers Insurance has confirmed it was hit by a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 1 million policyholders after a third-party cyberattack. The incident, linked by some outlets to the recent string of Salesforce-related hacks , involved a vishing scam that gave attackers unauthorized access to sensitive records.

The company disclosed that it first learned of the breach on May 30, when a third-party vendor flagged suspicious activity in its systems. Farmers brought in outside data-security experts to investigate, and on Aug. 22, began sending notices to impacted customers.

According to Farmers, the compromised data includes names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and in some cases, the last four digits of Social Security numbers. Rep

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