Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

The German web community portal 1cool.de allegedly suffered a data breach at an unknown date. Reports suggest approximately 26,000 member records were exposed. The leaked data included email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Domain: 1cool.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 28,480
  • Lines: 28,498
  • Size: 917.35 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In November 2019, the German adult dating and casual-meetup community website Lust-Treff (lust-treff.org) allegedly suffered a data breach. Running on vBulletin forum software, the site reportedly exposed the details of approximately 9,200 members. It has been reported that the compromised data included email addresses, usernames, MD5 password hashes, cracked plaintext passwords, and IP addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 9,259
  • Lines: 9,259
  • Size: 1010.38 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 100%
In November 2019, the German XT-Commerce e-commerce software community forum ecomservice.de allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 500 user records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted vBulletin hashes.
  • Date: Nov 2019
  • Domain: ecomservice.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 513
  • Lines: 514
  • Size: 60.1 KB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before November 2020, altersdiskriminierung.de, the website of the German non-profit Büro gegen Altersdiskriminierung e.V. (Office Against Age Discrimination), allegedly suffered a data breach that was later distributed as part of the Cit0day collection. Reports suggest approximately 300 records were exposed, consisting mostly of email addresses along with a small number of plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 333
  • Lines: 333
  • Size: 7.68 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In October 2022, ewg-fahrschule.de (EWG Fahrschule), a German driving school, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 13 staff/admin accounts were exposed, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers, with plaintext (base64-encoded) passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 13
  • Lines: 6,349
  • Size: 177.83 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime before 2020, the German dating website Verliebt-im-Norden.de allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the data was later distributed on a hacking forum. The incident allegedly exposed information on approximately 50,000 members, including usernames, email addresses, and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 50,207
  • Lines: 50,210
  • Size: 3.06 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
GoaCraft (goacraft.de), a German Minecraft game server, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,000 player accounts were exposed, including email addresses and usernames.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 1,021
  • Lines: 1,020
  • Size: 33.54 KB
  • 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.