Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In September 2020, ChqBook, an Indian banking platform that provides financial services to small business owners and professionals, suffered a data breach affecting approximately 4.8 million users. Among the compromised data were email addresses, full names, phone numbers, physical locations, financial income, social media profiles, birthdates, genders, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Date: Sep 2020
  • Domain: chqbook.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Records Announced: 4,810,182
  • Source: eccouncil.org
  • Data: Email Addresses Financial Information Genders Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Social Profiles
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 5,036,022
  • Number of lines: 5,036,034
  • Size: 1.6 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2025, New York University (NYU) suffered a data breach when its website was compromised for over two hours by a hacker protesting alleged race-based admissions. The attacker published data from over 3 million applicants dating back to 1989. NYU restored the site, launched an internal investigation, and began notifying affected individuals. At least 10 class action lawsuits have been filed. Although much of the data was redacted, it reportedly included names, email addresses, test scores, GPAs, geographic locations, financial aid details, ethnicities, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.
  • Date: Mar 22, 2025
  • Domain: nyu.edu
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Education
  • Records Announced: 3,160,701
  • Data: Company Information Education Email Addresses Ethnicities Family Members Financial Information Genders Geographic Locations Names Nationalities Phone Numbers Salutations Social Security Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,206,262
  • Number of lines: 4,448,300
  • Size: 5.88 GB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime in 2015, TTNET A.Ş., operating under the Türk Telekom brand and recognized as the largest Internet service provider in Turkey, experienced a data breach. The incident reportedly led to the exposure of approximately 5 million user records. Some of the leaked data includes names of institutions and individuals, phone numbers, email addresses, physical locations, and details related to internet subscription plans offered by Türk Telekom.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: ttnet.com.tr
  • Country: Turkey
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Records Announced: 5,119,689
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Telecom Providers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 5,573,228
  • Number of lines: 2,999,844
  • Size: 647.75 MB
  • Passwords: No
In December 2017, the virtual keyboard application ai.type, known for offering customizable keyboard features, reportedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the incident affected over 20 million users. Among the compromised data were names, birthdates, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, geographic locations, device identifiers and information, genders, profile photos, social media profiles, and details about telecom providers.
  • Data: Birthdates Device Identifiers Device Information Email Addresses Genders Geographic Locations IP Addresses Names Phone Numbers Profile Photos Social Profiles Telecom Providers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 75,424,326
  • Number of lines: 75,424,460
  • Size: 26.89 GB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately 2015, Mop.com, a Chinese gaming website and online forum, suffered a data breach exposing over 2.1 million user records. The incident reportedly compromised more than 1.8 million unique email addresses along with plaintext passwords.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: mop.com
  • Country: China
  • Category: Gaming
  • Records Announced: 1,889,042
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,893,973
  • Number of lines: 2,167,944
  • Size: 56 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2014, a database containing the Maryland death index appeared online. The dataset includes approximately 1.6 million death records spanning from 1973 to 2014. The exposed information reportedly consisted of names, dates of birth, and dates of death. It remains unclear how the data was obtained or whether its online publication was authorized.
  • Date: 2014
  • Domain: maryland.gov
  • Category: Government
  • Records Announced: 1,631,524
  • Data: Birthdates Date of Death Names
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 85,818,714
  • Number of lines: 85,822,194
  • Size: 8.07 GB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2024, SOCRadar, a cybersecurity firm, allegedly suffered a data breach after more than 332 million rows of email addresses were posted to a popular hacking forum. The dataset reportedly contained 282 million unique email addresses in valid formats, with claims that the information had been scraped.
  • Data: Email Addresses
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 332,969,694
  • Number of lines: 332,970,030
  • Size: 7.34 GB
  • Passwords: No

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.