RentoMojo 2023 Data Breach
Retail & Commerce / Rental Marketplace / Consumer / India
RentoMojo 2023 Data Breach: ~9 Million Rental-Customer Records Exposed via Cloud Misconfiguration
Indian online rental platform for furniture, appliances and electronics.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
40/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
ElevatedExposed data raises the risk of fraud, targeting, and impersonation. Proactive steps are warranted.
2.2MRecords
2023Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
Gov IDGovernment ID; Passport Number
Breach Summary
In April 2023, RentoMojo was breached via a cloud misconfiguration (discovered around April 15), exposing personal data on roughly 9.3 million individuals including full names, contact details, dates of birth, addresses, government IDs such as Aadhaar and passport numbers, and user credentials.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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2.2M records analyzed
About RentoMojo
RentoMojo is an Indian rental marketplace that leases furniture, appliances and consumer electronics on subscription to urban customers, verifying renters with identity documents.
Why They Hold Your Data
A rental platform that underwrites lessees holds customer identity and contact data, dates of birth, addresses, Indian government IDs (Aadhaar and passport), account credentials and rental/transaction history.
Recent Developments
RentoMojo continues to operate. The April 2023 incident followed an earlier 2017 breach of the company.
Data Points Exposed
10 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Gender
Government ID Critical
Passport Number Critical
Password High
Phone Number
Social Media Profile
Transaction History
Breach Impact
As a lessor holding Aadhaar and passport data, the breach carries significant identity-fraud exposure and regulatory concern under India's data-protection regime; it was RentoMojo's second disclosed incident.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using government-issued IDs | • Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Social media account targeting and impersonation
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Freeze credit at all three bureaus and monitor for new-account and tax-refund fraud.
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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