Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

At an unconfirmed date, el-basar, a German-language Turkish/Islamic community forum, allegedly suffered a data breach of its users table. Reports suggest approximately 1,400 member accounts were exposed, including usernames, email addresses and MD5 password hashes.
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 1,359
  • Lines: 1,366
  • Size: 142.01 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2009, L33tCrew, a German-language underground/carding forum running Invision Power Board, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 4,900 forum member accounts were exposed, including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, registration dates and salted password hashes (Invision/MyBB and SHA-1 migration hashes).
  • Date: 2009
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Hacking
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 4,885
  • Lines: 5,003
  • Size: 2.04 MB
  • Passwords: MyBB, SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before July 2019, the German online store hantermann.eu allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,400 customer records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations and salted MD5 password hashes.
  • Date: Jul 18, 2019
  • Domain: hantermann.eu
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 1,394
  • Lines: 1,436
  • Size: 205.26 KB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before November 2020, the online store of Arrow & Beast (arrowandbeast.com), a Stuttgart-based skateboarding and streetwear shop, allegedly suffered a data breach that was later included in the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest the exposed Magento customer database contained approximately 3,700 records, including email addresses, first and last names, phone numbers, geographic locations (country, region, city, address and postal code), and salted MD5 password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 3,718
  • Lines: 4,443
  • Size: 653.79 KB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2023, BITMARCK (bitmarck.de), a German IT service provider for the statutory health insurance sector, allegedly suffered a data breach following a cyberattack, with data later published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest approximately 900,000 records from the online customer portals (Internetfiliale) of health insurers it hosts were exposed, including last and first names, birthdates, insurance/registration numbers, and salted SHA-512 password hashes, alongside internal server-audit files exposing staff names and email addresses.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: bitmarck.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Government IDs Birthdates
  • Records: 916,937
  • Lines: 1,170,160
  • Size: 257.98 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2022, the customer database of Verpackungswelt.de, a German online retailer of packaging supplies, was allegedly leaked. Reports suggest that approximately 6,000 customer records were exposed. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, company information, and geographic details such as billing and shipping addresses. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 6,062
  • Lines: 6,627
  • Size: 1.95 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2020, the community forum of Clean-Ingredients (clean-ingredients.de) allegedly had its user database exposed. Clean-Ingredients is a German food and nutrition website that ran an online community forum for its users. Reports suggest approximately 100 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and bcrypt-hashed passwords. The data surfaced as part of the Cit0day breach collection.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 109
  • Lines: 109
  • Size: 14.68 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • 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.