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Was your data in the RentoMojo breach?

2023 · rentomojo.com · ~2,185,697 accounts exposedCritical severity · 10/10

RentoMojo (rentomojo.com) suffered a data breach in 2023 that exposed around 2,185,697 accounts. If you had an account, some of your personal data may be circulating in leaked databases. The fastest way to know is to check your own email — free, in about 30 seconds, no password required.

What happened

In April 2023, the Indian rental service RentoMojo suffered a data breach. The breach exposed over 2M unique email addresses along with names, phone, passport and Aadhaar numbers, genders, dates of birth, purchases and bcrypt password hashes.

Breach details sourced from Have I Been Pwned, the industry-standard breach database. Risk analysis by Nullivo.

What was exposed, and why it matters

Not all breaches carry the same risk — what matters is which fields leaked. Here is what the RentoMojo breach exposed and what each item actually enables:

Government identifiers

The strongest identity-theft material there is — enough to open credit accounts or file fraudulent claims in your name.

Passwords

Attackers replay leaked passwords across other sites (“credential stuffing”). Because most people reuse passwords, one leak often unlocks email, shopping and banking accounts elsewhere.

Dates of birth

Date of birth is a permanent identifier used to verify identity by phone. Combined with a name and address it is often enough to impersonate you.

Phone numbers

Enables SIM-swap attacks (hijacking your number to intercept SMS codes), smishing, and voice scams that appear to come from your bank.

Names and usernames

Links this leak to your other accounts — a reused username lets anyone build a profile of you across platforms.

Email addresses

Puts you on spam and phishing lists, and confirms to attackers that you hold an account with this service — which makes impersonation emails more believable.

Also listed in this breach: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Government issued IDs, Names, Passport numbers, Passwords, Phone numbers, Purchases, Social media profiles.

What to do if you were affected

These steps are ordered for this specific breach — the most urgent action given what leaked comes first.

  1. Government identifiers: Consider a credit freeze or fraud alert with the credit reference agencies, and watch for accounts you did not open.
  2. Passwords: Change this password everywhere you have reused it, starting with your email account — whoever controls your email can reset everything else.
  3. Dates of birth: Never confirm your date of birth to an inbound caller — hang up and dial the organisation back on a published number.
  4. Phone numbers: Move two-factor authentication off SMS to an authenticator app or passkey, and add a port-out PIN with your mobile provider.
  5. Names and usernames: Search your usual username to see what else it exposes, and use distinct handles for sensitive accounts.
  6. Check whether your own email appears in this breach — run a free scan to confirm before you spend time on the steps above.

How urgent is this now?

This data has been circulating for around 3 years, which means it has been copied, combined with other leaks and indexed by search tools many times over.

Passwords are the reason breach age matters less than people expect. Leaked credentials are compiled into wordlists that get tried against new services for years afterwards, so a password exposed here is unsafe to use anywhere, ever again.

Remember: a breach can't be "un-leaked" — once a database is out, it exists in countless copies. The goal is to make the leaked data useless: change what can be changed, lock down what can't, and remove what has been republished.

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Frequently asked questions

What data was exposed in the RentoMojo breach?

The RentoMojo breach exposed government identifiers, passwords, dates of birth, phone numbers, names and usernames, email addresses. The strongest identity-theft material there is — enough to open credit accounts or file fraudulent claims in your name.

How many people were affected by the RentoMojo breach?

Around 2,185,697 accounts were exposed, making it a large breach.

What should I do if I had a RentoMojo account?

Consider a credit freeze or fraud alert with the credit reference agencies, and watch for accounts you did not open. You can check whether your own email appears in this breach with a free Nullivo scan — no password required.

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