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Farmers Insurance suffered a major data breach.
More than 1 million customers were affected.
Affected customers are receiving free credit monitoring.
If you're a Farmers Insurance customer, you're going to want to pay attention -- and probably keep an eye on all of your important accounts.
According to a notice on the Farmers website, about 1.1 million customers had sensitive data revealed in a recent data breach. Compromised information includes customers' names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, and/or last four digits of their Social Security numbers.
While Farmers didn't explain the exact details, it said that the incident came from a compromised third-party database. It didn't name the third party.
Farmers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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