Hackers breached the Real Estate Wealth Network (REWN), a prominent data aggregator in the United States, leading to the compromise of highly sensitive information concerning homeowners, investors, and renters.
Real Estate Wealth Network (REWN) is a company that aggregates and sells data on the US real estate market. They collect information from a variety of sources, including public records, MLS listings, and property owners themselves.
The exposed database contained a total 1,523,776,691 records with a size of 1.16 TB. The data was organized in various folders according to: property history, motivated sellers, bankruptcy, divorce, tax liens, foreclosure, home owner association (HOA) liens, inheritance, court judgments, obituary (death), vacant properties, and more.
The leaked database includes:
- Names and addresses
- Phone numbers and email addresses
- Property details and valuations
- Mortgage and financial information
- Investment and rental data
After discovering the non-password-protected database, Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler conducted a targeted investigation into notable individuals, uncovering purported property ownership data for figures such as Kylie Jenner, Blake Shelton, Britney Spears, Floyd Mayweather, Dave Chappelle, Elon Musk & Associates LLC, Dolly Parton, Mark Wahlberg, Nancy Pelosi, and others. The exposed information included street addresses, purchase prices and dates, mortgage details, tax ID numbers, and tax-related information, raising significant privacy and security concerns.
Real Estate Wealth Network (REWN) was founded by real estate investor and educator Cameron Dunlap in 1993.
The database also contained daily logging records from 4/22/23 through 10/23/23, which showed internal user search data. The records Fowler saw included the user’s name, phone number, email, device information, and what files the user accessed.
