Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In August 2020, Indian payment provider Paytm was reported to have suffered a data breach followed by a ransom demand, after which the data was circulated publicly. However, investigations later determined that the exposed dataset was unrelated to Paytm. The dataset reportedly included 3.4 million unique email addresses. Some of the leaked data includes names, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth, PAN IDs, income levels, and details of previous purchases.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Financial Information Genders Geographic Locations Names Order Information Phone Numbers Tax IDs
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 5,084,731
  • Number of lines: 1,868,437
  • Size: 356.78 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2021, PhonePe, a digital payments and financial technology company based in Bengaluru, India, was reportedly involved in a data breach. The source and credibility of this claim remain unverified, and it is unclear whether the incident definitively occurred. According to unconfirmed reports, approximately 2 million user records may have been exposed. Some of the leaked data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, geographic locations, and bank-related information.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: phonepe.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Records Announced: 2,084,423
  • Data: Bank Account Information Email Addresses Geographic Locations Names Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 2,084,420
  • Number of lines: 746,937
  • Size: 158.95 MB
  • Passwords: No

WayDate 2016

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In 2016, the dating website WayDate.com, known for facilitating online matchmaking, experienced a data leak that exposed approximately 120,000 user records. The compromised information reportedly included IDs, nicknames, passwords, real names, birthdates, and contact details. Among the leaked data were also details from user profiles, such as marital status, relationship preferences, and other personal information.
  • Data: Ages Email Addresses Ethnicities Government IDs IP Addresses Languages Marital Statuses Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Profile Photos Religions Sexual Orientations Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 120,949
  • Number of lines: 178,929
  • Size: 79.46 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In May 2024, The Post Millennial, a conservative news website, allegedly suffered a data breach that also resulted in the defacement of its site. The incident reportedly exposed three separate datasets: information on hundreds of writers and editors, including IP addresses, physical addresses, and email addresses; details of tens of thousands of subscribers, including names, emails, usernames, phone numbers, and plain text passwords; and tens of millions of email addresses from thousands of mailing lists alleged to have been used by The Post Millennial. The mailing lists, which have not been independently verified, appeared to originate from various campaigns and contained additional personal attributes such as names, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Genders IP Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 263,634,570
  • Number of lines: 308,204,285
  • Size: 16.16 GB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2017, the esports platform FACEIT, known for hosting competitive online gaming tournaments, suffered a data breach affecting approximately 230,000 members. The method of the breach and the identity of the perpetrators remain unknown. Among the compromised data were email addresses and passwords stored in plaintext.
  • Date: 2017
  • Domain: faceit.com
  • Category: Gaming
  • Records Announced: 230,709
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 230,708
  • Number of lines: 230,709
  • Size: 7 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In approximately 2017, the gaming website AhoyGame suffered a data breach that impacted 191k users. The breach included Email Addresses and Passwords stored as Vbulletin hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 191,101
  • Number of lines: 191,165
  • Size: 11.6 MB
  • Passwords: Hashed
  • Cracked: 11%
In May 2019, the Minecraft server website Minehut reportedly suffered a data breach. The company confirmed that a database backup had been accessed and subsequently notified all impacted users. The breach exposed 397,000 email addresses, along with bcrypt password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 396,572
  • Number of lines: 396,690
  • Size: 8.82 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • 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.