Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In early 2017, the forum for the gaming website R2 Games was hacked. The breach reportedly exposed over 1 million unique user accounts. Among the compromised data were email addresses, usernames, passwords, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Site Activity Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 4,242,269
  • Number of lines: 5,321,715
  • Size: 1.54 GB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In June 2013, the Taiwanese website Yam.com suffered a data breach which was shared to a popular hacking forum in 2021. The data included 13 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Government IDs Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 16,308,289
  • Number of lines: 5
  • Size: 7.47 GB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime in 2019 (Or 2017, Date is unclear), the Russian wireless & telecommunications operator Beeline (Билайн) suffered a data breach that impacted 8.7 million users. The breach included Full names, Phone numbers and Physical Addresses.
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 8,713,510
  • Number of lines: 8,713,511
  • Size: 1.88 GB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2019, the now defunct European jobs website europa.jobs (Google cache link) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 226k unique email addresses alongside extensive personal information including names, dates of birth, job applications and passwords. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Geographic Locations Job Information Languages Names Passwords Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,059,846
  • Number of lines: 1,077,312
  • Size: 158.79 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
In 2022, a data breach exposed 3,178,461 COVID-19 vaccination records obtained from an unprotected API found in a GitHub repository. Among the compromised data were email addresses, government IDs, names, birthdates, phone numbers, physical locations, genders, and health information.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: farmapatria.com.ve
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Records Announced: 3,178,461
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Government IDs Health Information Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 3,178,462
  • Size: 1.88 GB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2019, the computer hardware and software forum HKGolden (高登讨论区) suffered a data breach that impacted 297k users. The attack led to the exposure of data including Email addresses, Usernames, Phone numbers, IP Addresses, Genders, Dates of birth and Passwords stored in Plaintext.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders IP Addresses Passwords Phone Numbers Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 297,904
  • Number of lines: 298,155
  • Size: 80.26 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2016, Fave, a shopping deals app formerly available at the now-defunct website thefaveapp.com, experienced a data breach. The platform was known for offering discounted deals on food, spa, fitness, and other services in Malaysia and Singapore. The incident reportedly exposed approximately 549,000 user records. Among the compromised data were names, email addresses, and password information stored as salted hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 549,120
  • Number of lines: 549,120
  • Size: 65.69 MB
  • Passwords: Rails
  • Cracked: 5%

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.