Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In 2021, Influentia.fr, a French digital marketing agency, experienced a data breach that compromised the personal data of a significant number of its clients. The breach exposed sensitive information, including usernames, genders, ages, and other confidential details related to their marketing activities.
  • Date: Nov 15, 2021
  • Domain: influentia.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Records Announced: 49,405,460
  • Data: Ages Genders Geographic Locations Languages Messages Site Activity Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 49,401,821
  • Number of lines: 49,410,966
  • Size: 7.93 GB
  • Passwords: No
In 2009 the turkish government had a major leak of 49Million citizens, this leak contained every citizen's names, addresses and much more... This database has also been known as mernis.
  • Date: 2009
  • Country: Turkey
  • Category: Government
  • Records Announced: 49,611,709
  • Data: Birthdates Family Members Genders Government IDs Names Physical Locations Places of Birth
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 49,611,737
  • Number of lines: 49,611,833
  • Size: 6.64 GB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately July 2016, MangaFox.me, a manga website, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its vBulletin-based forum. The incident reportedly exposed 1.3 million accounts, including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, dates of birth, and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,311,737
  • Number of lines: 1,311,738
  • Size: 148.97 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 12%
In November 2020, the Indian app for Doctors &Medical Students PlexusMD suffered a data breach that impacted 247k users. The leak led to the exposure of data including Usernames, Email addresses, IP Addresses, Dates of Birth, Full names, Phone numbers and Passwords stored in an unknown hash type.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 247,181
  • Number of lines: 247,218
  • Size: 65.23 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
In March 2024, French retailer LDLC disclosed a data breach that impacted customers of their physical stores. The data was previously listed for sale on a popular hacking forum and contained 1.26M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses
  • Date: Feb 28, 2024
  • Domain: ldlc.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Records Announced: 1,467,144
  • Source: haveibeenpwned.com
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Salutations
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,504,635
  • Number of lines: 1,504,634
  • Size: 692.04 MB
  • Passwords: No
In June 2011 as part of a final breached data dump, the hacker collective "LulzSec" obtained and released over half a million usernames and passwords from the game Battlefield Heroes. The passwords were stored as MD5 hashes with no salt and many were easily converted back to their plain text versions.
  • Data: Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 548,774
  • Number of lines: 548,774
  • Size: 24.67 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, Plaintext
In July 2018, the Belgian social networking site Netlog identified a data breach of their systems dating back to November 2012 (PDF). Although the service was discontinued in 2015, the data breach still impacted 49 million subscribers for whom email addresses and plain text passwords were exposed.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 56,090,732
  • Number of lines: 56,090,748
  • Size: 1.67 GB
  • Passwords: Plaintext

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.