Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In 2011, Sony suffered breach after breach after breach — it was a very bad year for them. The breaches spanned various areas of the business ranging from the PlayStation network all the way through to the motion picture arm, Sony Pictures. A SQL Injection vulnerability in sonypictures.com lead to tens of thousands of accounts across multiple systems being exposed complete with plain text passwords.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 51,213
  • Size: 2.82 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2017, a database containing voter information from Rhode Island was compromised. The breach exposed approximately 770,000 voter records. Among the compromised data were voter IDs, full names, physical addresses, previous addresses, dates of birth, genders, voter statuses, email addresses, and phone numbers.
  • Date: 2017
  • Domain: ri.gov
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Government
  • Records Announced: 770,421
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Government IDs Genders Birthdates Political Affiliation
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: No
In April 2024, a substantial volume of data was taken from the Bangladeshi IT services provider Tappware and published to a popular hacking forum. Comprising of 95k unique email addresses, the data also included extensive labour information on local citizens including names, physical addresses, job titles, dates of birth, genders and scans of government issued national identity (NID) cards.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Government IDs Job Information Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Religions
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: No
Essays-Experts.com is an established company providing valuable custom essay writing service suffered a data breach and were all data exposed by the incident, which happened in 2021.
  • Data: The data involved in the essays-experts.com 2021 security incident has not been specified. We are monitoring for reliable updates and will publish them here.
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 332,094
  • Size: 35.56 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 59%
In September 2020, the TUT.by network, which included several small web hosting sites under its management and the SMF forum host Hoster.by, experienced a data breach. The breach reportedly exposed a database containing approximately 3 million entries. Among the compromised data were email addresses, passwords, and usernames.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: Unknown

No detailed description is available for the Gre.ac.uk 2016 data breach. This entry is listed for awareness, and once it is imported, you will be able to check if your personal data was exposed. Meanwhile, you can see if your information is present in other breaches.

  • Data: No confirmed list of leaked data fields exists for the Gre.ac.uk 2016 incident. As new details emerge, we will add them here.
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 5,418,776
  • Size: 2.48 GB
  • Passwords: ?

At this time, no official description is available for the Weddbook.com 2020 incident. This record remains published to ensure transparency. Once imported, you will be able to check if your data was involved. For now, you can review other breaches to see if your information appears there.

  • Data: At present, the information about what data was leaked in the Weddbook.com 2020 breach remains unavailable. Further updates will follow.
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 110,409
  • Size: 54.42 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%

Frequently Asked Questions

A data breach is unauthorized access to data (often involving account takeover, malware, or misconfigured infrastructure). A data leak is exposure of data due to mistakes like public cloud storage, open databases, or accidental publishing. A database dump is a packaged dataset that may come from a breach, leak, scraping, or aggregation.

Change passwords for any affected accounts immediately, prioritizing email, banking, and any account that shares the same password. Enable multi-factor authentication wherever possible. Monitor your accounts for suspicious activity and consider placing a fraud alert or credit freeze if financial data was exposed.

Start with containment and verification: confirm what data was exposed, identify the entry point, rotate credentials (especially SSO, VPN, email), and enforce MFA. Then investigate affected systems, notify stakeholders as required, and harden controls to prevent recurrence. A structured incident response plan helps keep the work measurable and compliant.

Dark web monitoring helps you spot exposure signals early — before stolen data is widely reused for account takeover or targeted attacks. Monitoring complements vulnerability management by revealing when attackers already have leverage. Pair it with continuous attack surface monitoring and strong Asset Discovery to reduce blind spots.

Not always. Some datasets are old, incomplete, or derived from third parties. However, any exposure increases risk because credentials and personal data can be reused indefinitely. Treat it as a priority signal: rotate credentials, enforce MFA, review suspicious logins, and audit the systems that could have produced the data.

SynScan helps you connect the dots between attack surface exposure, vulnerabilities, and breach signals so you can prioritize remediation and reduce the chance of repeat incidents.