Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In November 2017, the open television database known as TheTVDB.com suffered a data breach. The breached data was posted to a hacking forum and included 182k records with usernames, email addresses and MySQL password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 192,810
  • Number of lines: 192,845
  • Size: 13.43 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2020, the Forum for the gaming Company Spacetime Studios suffered a data breach, impacting 181k members. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses and Passwords stored as vBulletin hashes. The website was breached by @donjuji. Spacetime Studios released a statement shortly after: "The Spacetime Studios team took immediate action to secure the site, fix the website vulnerabilities, and file a report with the FBI and our local law enforcement authorities".
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 181,791
  • Number of lines: 181,830
  • Size: 16.92 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 78%
In June 2015, Minefield, a French Minecraft server, allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 188,000 member records. The IP.Board-based forum reportedly leaked email addresses, IP addresses, dates of birth, and passwords stored as salted hashes, though the weak implementation allowed many to be quickly cracked.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Site Activity Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 188,334
  • Number of lines: 188,428
  • Size: 90.63 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 62%
In approximately August 2010, the gaming website Totaljerkface allegedly suffered a data breach that impacted 188k customer records. The breach included Email addresses, Usernames, IP addresses, Locations, User websites and Passwords stored as bcrypt ($2y$05) hashes. It was later found out that this breach was fabricated, and comes from another database.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations IP Addresses Passwords Usernames Websites
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 187,820
  • Number of lines: 188,056
  • Size: 21.73 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In May 2022, the Website to buy and sell luxury watches Watchfinder & Co. suffered a data breach that impacted 680k customers. The breach led to the exposure of data including Email addresses, Full names, Phone numbers and Watches Owned.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Order Information Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,173,427
  • Number of lines: 1,173,603
  • Size: 180.05 MB
  • Passwords: No
Russian retailer Krasnoe & Beloe and a chain of self-service stores with the same name, experienced a security breach in 2019, about 17 million users full names, dob, phone numbers were exposed in the incident.
  • Date: 2019
  • Domain: krasnoeibeloe.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Records Announced: 17,162,135
  • Data: Birthdates Names Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 17,162,153
  • Number of lines: 17,162,196
  • Size: 972.7 MB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately September 2021, the online IT training website NterOne was breached by @donjuji. The breach impacted 203k users and included Email addresses, Full names, IP addresses, Phone numbers, Company names, Locations and Passwords stored as bcrypt ($2a$10) hashes.
  • Data: Company Information Email Addresses Geographic Locations IP Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 203,091
  • Number of lines: 203,152
  • Size: 85.05 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.