Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2025, the Brazilian recruitment platform ICN (icn.srv.br) allegedly suffered a data breach exposing its job-candidate database. Reports suggest approximately 77,000 candidate records were affected. It has been reported that the compromised data included full names, national ID numbers (CPF), plaintext passwords, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, home addresses, marital statuses, and the names of candidates' parents.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: icn.srv.br
  • Country: Brazil
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Family Members Marital Statuses Relationship Statuses Birthdates
  • Records: 77,084
  • Lines: 77,086
  • Size: 6.82 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In October 2024, the Brazilian online-course and e-learning platform Ensinio (ensinio.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Ensinio provides a complete solution for creators to teach and sell courses online. Reports suggest the exposed database contained approximately 161,000 user records. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, full names, usernames, phone numbers, Brazilian CPF document numbers, dates of birth, and account creation details. The breach was attributed to a threat actor using the alias 888.
  • Date: Oct 2024
  • Domain: ensinio.com
  • Threat Actor: 888
  • Country: Brazil
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders Site Activity Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 161,044
  • Lines: 161,052
  • Size: 22.91 MB
  • Passwords: No
In December 2025, a database of the Brazilian crowdfunding platform APOIA.se was allegedly posted to an online forum. In January 2026, the company reportedly confirmed it had suffered a data breach. The incident exposed approximately 451,000 unique email addresses along with names and physical addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations
  • Records: 535,318
  • Lines: 535,319
  • Size: 87.35 MB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2026, a data set attributed to SERPRO (Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados), Brazil's federal data-processing agency, was allegedly offered on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the actor claimed a full database of roughly 214 million Brazilian citizens sourced from SERPRO, but the portion actually released and verified was a proof-of-concept sample of approximately 5 million records. The exposed data included full names, Brazilian CPF numbers, genders, and dates of birth. The broader 214-million claim remains unverified.
  • Data: Names Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 5,000,000
  • Lines: 5,000,001
  • Size: 297.94 MB
  • Passwords: No
In June 2026, the virtual learning environment (AVA) of the Brazilian university FATEA / UniFATEA (avafatea.com.br), a Moodle-based e-learning platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that a full SQL database dump of the platform was exported and released publicly. It has been reported that the records of approximately 4,000 students and staff were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, full names, phone numbers, IP addresses, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt and salted SHA-512 hashes.
  • Date: Jun 2026
  • Domain: avafatea.com.br
  • Threat Actor: Sensitive2025
  • Country: Brazil
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 5,368
  • Lines: 13,363,998
  • Size: 1.84 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2023, OpenDataCenter (opendatacenter.com.br), a Brazilian travel-booking platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed SQL database contained booking, payment and service records for tens of thousands of transactions, including travel-agency account emails and passwords, passenger names, Brazilian national IDs (CPF), masked payment-card details with cardholder names and billing addresses, phone numbers, and physical locations.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Credit Card Information Payment Information Order Information Government IDs Site Activity Company Information Nationalities
  • Records: 587,057
  • Lines: 1,037,906
  • Size: 1.72 GB
  • Passwords: MD5, Plaintext
In 2026, the email inbox of the Ipanema Municipal Prefecture (ipanema.mg.gov.br) in Minas Gerais, Brazil, was allegedly compromised and its full contents published on a hacking forum. The prefecture's website provides public services such as local taxes, documents and city information. Reports suggest the exposed mailbox included messages exchanged with citizens, staff and external organizations. The leak allegedly exposed approximately 400 distinct email correspondents, with compromised data including email addresses, sender/recipient names and message contents.
  • Date: Apr 2026
  • Domain: ipanema.mg.gov.br
  • Threat Actor: NormalLeVrai
  • Country: Brazil
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Site Activity
  • Records: 1,142
  • Lines: 9,355
  • Size: 1.62 MB
  • Passwords: No

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.