Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In August 2012, the fashion site Lookbook suffered a data breach. The data later appeared listed for sale in June 2016 and included 1.1 million usernames, email and IP addresses, birth dates and plain text passwords.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Names Site Activity Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,104,433
  • Number of lines: 1,112,288
  • Size: 124.34 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime in 2009, staffing platform Elance suffered a data breach that impacted 1.3 million accounts. Appearing online 8 years later, the data contained usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and SHA1 hashes of passwords, amongst other personal data.
  • Data: Company Information Email Addresses Geographic Locations Passwords Phone Numbers Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,578,980
  • Number of lines: 1,625,796
  • Size: 171.52 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 96%
On August 24, 2024, the TalentSmart.com website, known for providing emotional intelligence assessments and training, was breached. The breach, reportedly conducted by SILKFIN AGENCY, exposed approximately 1,400,000 user records. Among the compromised data were names, email addresses, gender, ages, geographic locations, job levels, job functions, industries, income levels, and contact information. Additional compromised data includes purchase details such as transaction amounts, payment methods, and shipping information.
  • Date: Aug 24, 2024
  • Domain: talentsmart.com
  • Threat Actor: SILKFIN AGENCY
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Records Announced: 1,248,861
  • Data: Ages Email Addresses Financial Information Genders Geographic Locations Job Information Names Order Information Payment Information Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,248,861
  • Number of lines: 1,248,861
  • Size: 443.62 MB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately January 2017, the dating website Passions Network suffered a data breach that impacted 833k customer records. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses and Passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 833,499
  • Number of lines: 833,557
  • Size: 69.17 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 49%
Approximately in June 2024, Los Angeles Unified School District suffered a data breach that exposed over.The breach exposed data including over 24 million data contains over 2 million unique email addresses and also contains students, parents and staff members ages, dates of birth, education levels, ethnicities, family members' names, family structure, genders, government issued IDs (SSN's), home ownership statuses, income levels, job titles, names, net worths, phone numbers, physical addresses, school grades (class levels), spoken languages and usernames.The leak also included various social statuses of students, such as poverty, homelessness, migrant status, etc.
  • Date: Jun 2024
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Education
  • Records Announced: 2,034,178
  • Data: Ages Balances Birthdates Education Email Addresses Ethnicities Family Members Financial Information Genders Government IDs Job Information Languages Marital Statuses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Real Estate Information Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 24,210,785
  • Number of lines: 24,210,787
  • Size: 9.55 GB
  • Passwords: No
In early 2022, a collective known as IT Army whose stated goal is to "completely de-anonymise most Russian users by leaking hundreds of gigabytes of databases" published over 30GB of data allegedly sourced from Russian courier service CDEK. The data contained over 19M unique email addresses along with names and phone numbers. The authenticity of the breach could not be independently established and has been flagged as "unverfieid".
  • Date: Mar 9, 2022
  • Domain: cdek.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Logistics & Transportation
  • Records Announced: 19,218,203
  • Source: haveibeenpwned.com
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 822,952,126
  • Number of lines: 822,952,128
  • Size: 84.83 GB
  • Passwords: No
In July 2022, the Direct Download Community ExVagos suffered a data breach that impacted 2.1 million members. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses, Dates of birth, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as vBulletin hashes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 2,122,614
  • Number of lines: 2,122,736
  • Size: 852.04 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 61%

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.