Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

In 2026, a threat actor using the handle "Sophia" allegedly leaked a database from dasmusiknetzwerk.de ("Das Musiknetzwerk"), a small German music-community website offering event listings and classifieds for musicians and bands. It has been reported that the exposed WordPress database contained a small set of around 13 email addresses along with a site administrator account whose password was stored as a phpass hash. The data allegedly included email addresses, a username, a hashed password and limited site activity details.
  • Date: 2026
  • Domain: dasmusiknetzwerk.de
  • Threat Actor: Sophia
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Streaming & Entertainment
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 443
  • Lines: 9,404
  • Size: 13.01 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2024, gallzick.de, a German e-commerce store, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest an exported Magento customer address table was exposed, containing roughly 150 customer records, including names, physical addresses (street, city, postcode), phone numbers, and countries. The dataset contained no email addresses or passwords.
  • Date: 2024
  • Domain: gallzick.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Company Information
  • Records: 149
  • Lines: 172
  • Size: 20.01 KB
  • Passwords: No
Schmuckladen (schmuckladen.de), a German online jewelry retailer, allegedly suffered a data breach of its customer database in 2024. It has been reported that approximately 25,000 genuine customer records were exposed, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal codes, and account creation dates. (The raw file additionally contained a large volume of automated casino spam-bot registrations, which were excluded.)
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 24,603
  • Lines: 47,522
  • Size: 6.43 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2026, the German online shop donig24.de allegedly suffered a data breach exposing its OXID eShop customer and order database. Reports suggest the data of approximately 5,000 customers was exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, company details, VAT numbers and passwords (a mix of bcrypt and legacy salted MD5/SHA-512 hashes).
  • Date: 2026
  • Domain: donig24.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 19,718
  • Lines: 20,396
  • Size: 6.28 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5 Salted, SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2019, the German software and gaming forum Freesoft Board (freesoft-board.de) allegedly suffered a data breach as part of a wider wave of attacks against forums running vulnerable vBulletin software. Reports suggest this dataset of approximately 97,000 records was exposed, including vBulletin password hashes with per-user salts and their recovered plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Passwords
  • Records: 97,327
  • Lines: 97,337
  • Size: 5.18 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 100%
Sometime before 2015, the German Linux community forum linuxforen.de allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that its vBulletin forum database was compromised, exposing approximately 34,000 records. The exposed data included salted vBulletin password hashes, many of which have since been cracked to reveal plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Passwords
  • Records: 33,859
  • Lines: 33,859
  • Size: 2.25 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 100%
The German website flyermeyer.de allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data included user passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes. This dataset contains approximately 2,800 cracked account credentials recovered from the breach.
  • Data: Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 2,800
  • Lines: 2,813
  • Size: 153.79 KB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 100%

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.