[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f1aj2a5zm6ad3k":3},{"success":4,"breach":5},true,{"_id":6,"name":7,"title":8,"slug":9,"domain":10,"breachDate":11,"addedDate":12,"modifiedDate":12,"contentUpdatedAt":13,"source":14,"sourceUrl":15,"sourceUrls":16,"pwnCount":18,"affectedCount":18,"affectedCountStatus":19,"affectedCountLowerBound":20,"affectedCountUnit":21,"hasEnglishDescription":4,"severity":22,"dataClasses":23,"description":29,"seoTitle":30,"seoTitleEn":31,"seoDescription":30,"seoDescriptionEn":32,"logoUrl":33,"isVerified":4,"isSensitive":34,"isSpamList":34,"isMalware":34,"company":35},"68e3266eda11adda488252bb","Moneycontrol","Moneycontrol Data Breach","moneycontrol","moneycontrol.com","2017-09-07T00:00:00.000Z","2021-05-22T22:37:30.000Z","2026-07-18T23:54:40.977Z","Financial platform credential breach","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.moneycontrol.com\u002F",[15,17],"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.opindia.com\u002F2021\u002F04\u002Fpersonal-details-of-over-seven-lakh-moneycontrol-users-up-for-sale\u002F",762874,"known",null,"unknown","High",[24,25,26,27,28],"Email addresses","Genders","Geographic locations","Passwords","Phone numbers","\u003Cp>The Moneycontrol data breach is a verified security incident associated with India-based financial news, market data, and investment tracking services. The record is based on a data file trace dated September 7, 2017; the incident came to public attention in April 2021 when the data was put up for sale. The number of affected accounts is held at 762,874. Verified data classes include email addresses, gender information, geographical location information, passwords, and phone numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This record should not be considered merely as a risk from an old site account since it carries a finance and market tracking context. When plain text passwords, email addresses, and phone information are present together, it creates a strong foundation for account takeover, password guessing, fake investment advisory, finance-themed phishing, and phone scams. Although the birth date appears in some event narratives, it has not been added to the main fields of this record because it is not listed among verified data classes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Leaking Data Types and Risks\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The types of data verified in the Moneycontrol record are email addresses, gender information, geographic location information, passwords, and phone numbers. An email address can be used to send the user a fake account alert, market notification, portfolio check, or password reset message. The phone number increases the risk of direct contact via calls and text messages. Geographic location information can lead to targeting based on the user's country, city, or regional context.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The password field is the most critical part of this record. Since the sources mention the term plain text password, if the affected person used the same password on another service, the risk is not limited to the Moneycontrol account. Gender and location information can make fake investment recommendations or personal finance-themed scam messages more convincing. This combination of data particularly necessitates additional controls in financial applications, stock monitoring accounts, email accounts, and payment services.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>Email and password together make account takeover attempts easier.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>The phone number can be used for fake support calls and SMS traps.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Geographical location information can make regional financial messages more convincing.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Gender information can be a profile-completing field in targeted social engineering scenarios.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch2>Verified Scope and Boundaries\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>This record was limited to 762,874 affected accounts, the domain moneycontrol.com, and five verified data categories. Although the exact first access time of the incident is not precisely stated, it is assumed that the data file traces back to September 2017, and the data became visible in 2021. Therefore, the date of the breach was considered as September 7, 2017, as indicated by the file trace, rather than the 2021 sales date. The addition date is associated with its entry into verification lists on May 22, 2021.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The record does not include payment card, bank account, ID number, physical address, transaction history, portfolio information, or investment account balance as verified fields. Although the date of birth appears in some descriptions, it was not added to the main field list because it does not appear in the verified data class set. This distinction allows presenting the actual risk without unnecessarily alarming the user. Duplicate checks were conducted based on the title, field name, date, number of affected accounts, and data classes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>User Groups at Risk\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The primary risk group consists of users who had a Moneycontrol account before or around 2017 and who continue to use the same email address across finance, investment, news, stock tracking, payment, or social accounts. Since there is a password field, people who use the same password elsewhere are at higher risk. Users who specifically follow the stock market and finance news can be targeted with fake investment advice, portfolio checks, or urgent account verification messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>People who use their phone number for financial services, do not change the same email address for a long time, do not use a password manager, and have not enabled multi-factor authentication in financial applications should be more careful. On the corporate side, if employees working in finance, accounting, investor relations, media, research, and sales teams have personal Moneycontrol data intersecting with their work email or work phone, the risk of fake payments, fake market reports, or fake customer requests may increase.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>Moneycontrol members who use the same password on multiple accounts\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>People who maintain phone and email information in financial services\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Active users interested in stock exchange, investment, and market news\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Employees who use similar contact information in work and personal finance accounts\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch2>Urgent Measures to Be Taken\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>A user who encounters a Moneycontrol result should first completely abandon the password used on this account and select a new, unique password for all accounts that use the same or a similar password. Email accounts, financial applications, investment platforms, payment services, social media, and cloud storage accounts should be checked first. Simply changing a small character in the password is not considered secure; a separate and long password should be preferred for each service.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Investment, credit, payment, stock alerts, or account verification links sent via SMS should be confirmed through an independent channel if the phone number has been leaked. Where possible, multi-factor authentication should be enabled on accounts, session history and connected devices should be reviewed, and unknown sessions should be closed. Requests for passwords, codes, or payments from callers claiming to be from Moneycontrol or a financial service representative should not be accepted. Using a password manager is the most practical way to clean up recurring passwords.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>Renew your Moneycontrol password and all accounts that use the same password.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Enable multi-factor authentication on email and financial accounts.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Verify investment connections received via text message and phone through an independent channel.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Check your session history, connected devices, and unexpected login alerts.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch2>Long-Term Security Strategies\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Data leaked from finance-focused platforms like Moneycontrol retains its value for a long time. A combination of email, phone, location, and password can still be used years later for phishing, fake investment advisory, market manipulation-themed messages, or account testing attempts. Therefore, users need to regularly maintain a password inventory, close unused accounts, separate email addresses according to their usage purpose, and prefer app-based authentication for critical financial accounts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For organizations, this record shows that employees' personal data breaches can carry over into business processes. Teams working with financial news and market data should use a secondary approval process against fake report links, investment file attachments, payment redirection requests, and phone confirmation attempts. Security awareness training, controls that prevent password reuse, secure email gateways, and risky link alerts reduce the impact of such incidents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Record Control and User Action\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>A user who sees a Moneycontrol result on LeakData.io should compare the matching email address and phone information with their own account history. The result does not mean that the person has an active Moneycontrol account today; however, it shows that the account listed in the 2017 leaked data file became visible in 2021. Therefore, the correct action is to verify that the old password is no longer valid for any account today and to use an additional layer of security on financial accounts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This record is kept in a verified status, but areas outside the scope are not enlarged. Instead of acting as if payment card, bank account, physical address, or investment portfolio data have been leaked, attention should be focused on the real risk posed by email, phone, location, gender, and password data. Users can significantly reduce the impact of the Moneycontrol breach on current accounts by using strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, independent verification, and the habit of rejecting suspicious communications.\u003C\u002Fp>","","Moneycontrol Data Breach (762.9 Thousand Reported Records)","Moneycontrol Data Breach. 762.9 Thousand reported records were reported. Reported data: Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations. Review the scope…","\u002Fuploads\u002Flogo\u002Fmoneycontrol_com.webp",false,{"name":7,"sector":36,"country":37,"website":10,"websiteArchiveUrl":30,"websiteStatus":30,"websiteCheckedAt":20},"Financial news \u002F markets platform","India"]