Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In 2019, the educational website Zunal.com experienced a data breach. Zunal.com is known for allowing users to create web-based educational projects. The breach led to the exposure of several types of user data. Around 507,479 compromised users were found. Among the compromised data were email addresses, passwords stored in plaintext, names, usernames, genders, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames Genders Site Activity
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 507,479
  • Number of lines: 507,497
  • Size: 100.77 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2018, SportsFreaksOnline.com, a Canadian softball community forum known as “Canada’s #1 Softball Community,” experienced a data breach. The site was centered around user discussion boards, tournament chatter, and community posts, likely operating on vBulletin forum software. The breach reportedly exposed approximately 122,000 user records. Some of the leaked data includes usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, and passwords stored as vBulletin hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 112,276
  • Number of lines: 112,315
  • Size: 13.21 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 88%
In 2023, a data breach allegedly occurred involving the website InternationalGlobalNetwork.com, an organization focused on youth development programs aimed at fostering global cooperation in business, culture, and social movements. Reports suggest that the incident exposed a 3 GB SQL file containing approximately 11 million rows of data, including around 700,000 unique email addresses. Among the compromised data were names, email addresses, passwords, dates of birth, genders, physical locations, phone numbers, IP addresses, and links to social profiles.
  • Data: Ages Bios Birthdates Education Email Addresses Family Members Genders IP Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Social Profiles
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 6,479,740
  • Number of lines: 11,209,398
  • Size: 2.97 GB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2016, the prank call service OwnagePranks, known for providing prerecorded prank call content, experienced a data breach. It has been reported that the incident affected approximately 117,000 users. Among the compromised data were email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth, social profiles, websites and passwords stored as vBulletin hashes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Site Activity Social Profiles Usernames Websites
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 436,857
  • Number of lines: 4,429,994
  • Size: 656.77 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 80%
Early in 2014, the video game website NextGenUpdate reportedly suffered a data breach that disclosed almost 1.2 million accounts. Amongst the data breach was usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted and hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,190,000
  • Number of lines: 1,193,285
  • Size: 120.09 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 91%
In February 2021, the Lithuanian car-sharing service CityBee announced they'd suffered a data breach that exposed 110k customers' personal information. The breach exposed names, email addresses, government issued IDs and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Government IDs Names Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 110,307
  • Number of lines: 110,324
  • Size: 10.73 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 97%
In 2020, the Miami Book Fair, a major U.S. literary festival organized by Miami Dade College and known for author talks, readings, and a large downtown street fair, experienced a data breach. The incident reportedly exposed approximately 8,776 user records. Among the compromised data were names, usernames, email addresses, and passwords hashed using PHPass.
  • Date: 2020
  • Domain: miamibookfair.com
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Literature
  • Records Announced: 8,776
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 8,776
  • Number of lines: 8,796
  • Size: 6.6 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • 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.