Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In November 2020, btun.net was allegedly exposed as part of the Cit0day breach collection, a set of thousands of previously breached websites made available on hacking forums. It has been reported that approximately 120,000 records were affected. The compromised data reportedly includes email addresses, usernames, MD5 password hashes, birthdates, phone numbers, websites, and site activity details.
  • Date: Nov 4, 2020
  • Domain: btun.net
  • Country: China
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 119,992
  • Lines: 120,002
  • Size: 30.9 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2013, apphan.com, a Chinese online forum, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 146,000 user records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, registration dates, and salted MD5 password hashes.
  • Date: 2013
  • Domain: apphan.com
  • Country: China
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 146,078
  • Lines: 146,132
  • Size: 19.92 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
In January 2023, fuyoutianshi.com allegedly suffered a data breach. The site is a Chinese maternal and child health management platform used by a county-level maternal and child health hospital. It has been reported that a database from the platform was exposed, with approximately 18,000 records affected. The exposed data allegedly included full names, phone numbers, government-issued national ID numbers, dates of birth, genders, usernames, home addresses, and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 18,202
  • Lines: 90,758
  • Size: 20.63 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
homsh.cn 2022

homsh.cn 2022

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Sometime before 2022, the Chinese iris-recognition technology company Homsh (Wuhan Hongshi Technology Co., Ltd, homsh.cn) allegedly suffered a data breach. Homsh develops iris biometric chips, smart locks, and community access-control systems. Reports suggest that a database containing information on approximately 800 individuals was exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, usernames, names, phone numbers, government-issued ID numbers, geographic locations, IP addresses, and passwords stored as a mix of BCrypt, PHPass, MD5, SHA-256, and other hashes.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: homsh.cn
  • Country: China
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Websites Company Information
  • Records: 951
  • Lines: 3,940,489
  • Size: 3.12 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5, PHPass, SHA-256, Unknown
Sometime before February 2023, epplink.net, a Chinese network-device authorization and WiFi management platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained approximately 19,000 records belonging to platform users, subscribers and administrators. The compromised data included email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, names, genders, IP addresses, company information, geographic locations and passwords stored in a mix of plaintext and hashed formats (MD5, salted SHA-512, salted MD5, BCrypt and PHPass).
  • Date: Feb 12, 2023
  • Domain: ycgsbz.com
  • Country: China
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Company Information
  • Records: 19,711
  • Lines: 1,214,755
  • Size: 122.4 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5, MD5 Salted, SHA-512 Salted, BCrypt, PHPass
Sometime before 2020, the online fashion bag retailer fashionbags2018.cn allegedly suffered a data breach. The data later surfaced as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 5,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 5,098
  • Lines: 5,098
  • Size: 280.22 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2008, web.2008php.com, a Chinese PHP developer resource and community website, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 700 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 703
  • Lines: 704
  • Size: 19.05 KB
  • 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.