Is Your Email in the Competent Maruti Leak? 2,008 Logins
Competent Maruti, an automotive dealership website, reportedly had 2,008 customer accounts exposed in a breach that HEROIC analysts traced to a file pairing email addresses with plaintext passwords, first distributed on a hacking forum before reaching Telegram. Is your email one of the 2,008? Scanning your email is the only way to know for sure.
A dealership account often holds more than a login. It can be tied to service appointments, financing inquiries, and a phone number, all sitting behind a password that was reused somewhere else.
What Was Exposed
Key finding100% of records pair an email address with a password.
What the Competent Maruti File Exposed
- Email addresses: confirm the customer and surface other accounts tied to that address.
- Plaintext passwords: readable the moment the file is opened, with nothing to crack.
How a Dealership's Records End Up in a File Like This
This is a database leak: the information came from Competent Maruti's own stored customer accounts, not malware on a personal device, which means every registered customer was exposed at the same time, regardless of how long ago they last visited.
Data exposed in this breach
Email addresses appear in 100% of the 2,008 records in this breach, alongside plain-text passwords (100%). 100% of records (2,008) pair an email address with a password.
An email address and password together are a working login. Attackers feed pairs like these into automated tools that try them on banking, shopping and email sites, so anyone who reused the password elsewhere is exposed there too.
- Domain
- competent-maruti.com
- Date leaked
- 01 Aug 2023
- Records in breach
- 2,008
Email providers and account types
94.4% of the email addresses in this breach are personal mailboxes and 5.6% are work addresses. The most common provider is gmail.com, followed by yahoo.com and yahoo.co.in.
Work addresses matter because a password reused on a company account can give attackers a way into that organisation. The company domains below show which employers appear most often.
Mailbox type
- Personal mailboxes94.4%
- Work mailboxes5.6%
Email providers
- 1gmail.com1,418
- 2yahoo.com163
- 3yahoo.co.in87
- 4hotmail.com78
- 5rediffmail.com68
- 6yahoo.in17
- 7ymail.com11
- 8yahoo.co.uk8
- 9outlook.com8
- 10live.com5
- 11icloud.com4
- 12mail.com4
- 13aol.com3
- 14rediff.com3
- 15gmail.con2
Company domains
| # | Domain | Accounts | Share of records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maruti.co.in | 7 | 0.3% |
| 2 | aol.in | 4 | 0.2% |
| 3 | live.in | 4 | 0.2% |
| 4 | nic.in | 2 | 0.1% |
| 5 | aonhewitt.com | 2 | 0.1% |
| 6 | stryker.com | 2 | 0.1% |
| 7 | sbp.co.in | 2 | 0.1% |
| 8 | sbi.co.in | 2 | 0.1% |
| 9 | carlsonwagonlit.com | 1 | <0.1% |
| 10 | transsion.com | 1 | <0.1% |
| 11 | sunriselabel.com | 1 | <0.1% |
| 12 | jouve.in | 1 | <0.1% |
| 13 | gg.com | 1 | <0.1% |
| 14 | technomediaindia.com | 1 | <0.1% |
| 15 | rahulbasu.in | 1 | <0.1% |
Password Analysis
Key finding1.3% of passwords in this breach are reused, and 64.4% are 8 characters or fewer.
Why a Dealership Login Is Worth Taking
Attackers do not need a dealership account itself to be valuable. They need the email and password pair to work on a banking site or an email provider, which happens whenever someone reuses a password across unrelated accounts.
What Happens When a Password Gets Reused
Credential stuffing tools test a leaked email and password pair against hundreds of other sites automatically. A password typed into a car dealership's customer portal can just as easily unlock an email inbox, leading to account takeover or financial fraud.
Password strength
Of the 2,008 passwords analysed, 1.3% appear more than once, and the single most common password accounts for 0.5% of them. The average password is 8.7 characters long.
74.1% contain no special character, 10.3% are numbers only and 9.2% are lowercase letters only. Passwords built this way are the first ones cracking tools try, which is why length and a mix of character types matter.
Password habits
Password length
The most common length is 7-8 characters, covering 60.8% of passwords. 64.4% are 8 characters or fewer, while only 0.2% reach 17 characters or more.
Every extra character multiplies the number of guesses an attacker needs. Passwords of 8 characters or fewer can be cracked quickly once they leak, while long passphrases hold up far better.
Share of passwords by length
- 8 characters or fewer
- 9 characters or more
Most common passwords
The most common password appears 10 times, and the top 15 together account for 40 uses. Passwords are masked here: only their first characters are shown, next to each password's true length.
When many accounts share one password it usually points to a default password, a shared team password or a common pattern such as a name followed by numbers. Treat any password on this list as public.
- 112****6 chars10
- 2an******8 chars3
- 31****5 chars3
- 4Cwa********11 chars2
- 5ra******8 chars2
- 6ra********10 chars2
- 7oni********11 chars2
- 8am******8 chars2
- 9Bu********10 chars2
- 10ma*******9 chars2
- 11qw****6 chars2
- 12ha*******9 chars2
- 13ra********10 chars2
- 14cha*********12 chars2
- 15Uma********11 chars2
Check Your Email Against the Competent Maruti Leak
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Leaked in this breach: email address, plaintext password
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Threat Intelligence
Key finding554 records from competent-maruti.com staff appear in 237 other breaches.
Employees of competent-maruti.com in other breaches
554 records from competent-maruti.com staff turn up in 237 other breaches. The most common sources are People Data Labs, Nitro PDF and IndiaMART.
86.5% of these staff passwords are reused, so a password leaked in one of these breaches may still open a work account. Organisations in this position should reset passwords for the affected addresses and require multi-factor authentication.
Company staff exposure
Other breaches with staff records
Staff email addresses
- 1m*****i@competent-maruti.com41
- 2v*****h@competent-maruti.com39
- 3g*****u@competent-maruti.com30
- 4*****@competent-maruti.com26
- 5c*****l@competent-maruti.com25
- 6n*****i@competent-maruti.com22
- 7k*****a@competent-maruti.com20
- 8l*****a@competent-maruti.com19
- 9c*****u@competent-maruti.com19
- 10m*****e@competent-maruti.com19
- 11k*****p@competent-maruti.com19
- 12c*****p@competent-maruti.com19
- 13c*****r@competent-maruti.com17
- 14j*****e@competent-maruti.com16
- 15h*****a@competent-maruti.com13
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