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Real Estate Mogul Data Breach

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Breach date: September 6, 2016307,768 affected accounts in the record
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What happened?

In September 2016, the real estate investment site Real Estate Mogul had a Mongo DB instance compromised and 5GB of data downloaded by an unauthorised party. The data contained real estate listings including addresses and the names, phone numbers and 308k unique email addresses of the sellers. Real Estate Mogul was advised of the incident in September 2018 and stated that they "found no instance of user account credentials like usernames and passwords nor billing information within this file".

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When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is September 6, 2016. The record was added to the catalogue on September 24, 2018 and last updated there on September 24, 2018.

03

What information was reported as exposed?

  • Email addresses
  • Names
  • Phone numbers
  • Physical addresses

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

04

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Real Estate Mogul or used realestatemogul.com around September 6, 2016. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

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What should you do?

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Sources and review information

Page reviewed September 14, 2026 by the Data Breach Help Editorial Team. Catalogue details reflect the provider record and may change.