Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2025, the German online photography retailer Fotofrey (fotofrey.de) allegedly suffered a data breach of its PrestaShop-based store. Reports suggest the data was published on a hacking forum by an actor using the handle NOR. The incident allegedly exposed information on approximately 1,600 customers, including names, email addresses, MD5-hashed passwords, postal addresses, phone numbers, and some birthdates.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: fotofrey.de
  • Threat Actor: NOR
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations IP Addresses Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 3,302
  • Lines: 3,468
  • Size: 551.07 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
TheVace, a German Minecraft server network and community operating since 2014, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 11,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 11,395
  • Lines: 11,395
  • Size: 377.16 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In November 2022, izafabian.com, a German women's fashion designer label operating a PrestaShop online store, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 182 records were exposed, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, geographic addresses, birthdates, and hashed passwords (bcrypt and MD5).
  • Date: Nov 2022
  • Domain: izafabian.com
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 182
  • Lines: 939,067
  • Size: 56.07 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In early 2024, the German online store ShopSoft24 (shopsoft24.de), built on Shopware, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed customer database contained approximately 3,000 records, including email addresses, full names, physical addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, order information, and bcrypt-hashed passwords for a subset of registered accounts.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Order Information IP Addresses Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 2,966
  • Lines: 21,275
  • Size: 15.05 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2025, the German online store Simon Brennt (simon-brennt.de) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the data was taken from the store's Shopware customer database and subsequently shared on a hacking forum. It has been reported that approximately 2,000 customers were affected, with the exposed data including names, email addresses, birthdates, postal addresses, phone numbers, genders, and BCrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 6,358
  • Lines: 6,362
  • Size: 751.05 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2024, the German electricity provider Tibber suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 50k customers. The data included names, email addresses, geographic locations (city and postcode) and total spend on purchases
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Order Information Site Activity
  • Records: 243,592
  • Lines: 243,594
  • Size: 14.78 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2026, the German IT news website IT-I-Ko (itiko.de) allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that a WordPress database backup was exposed, containing a large visitor-analytics log of roughly 631,000 IP records alongside approximately 26,000 email addresses harvested from article content, reader comments, and the site administrator account. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, names, IP addresses, and website visitor activity.
  • Date: 2026
  • Domain: itiko.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 706,338
  • Lines: 4,070,396
  • Size: 1.16 GB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%

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.