Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2020, the support forum of Premium Contao Themes (forum.premium-contao-themes.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. The site sold premium themes and templates for the Contao open-source content management system, primarily to a German-speaking audience. The breach surfaced within a collection of forum databases circulated on hacking forums, and reports suggest approximately 650 members were affected. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 651
  • Lines: 651
  • Size: 89.95 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2020, the German online forum readmore.de allegedly suffered a data breach that surfaced as part of the Cit0day collection of breached websites. Reports suggest approximately 95,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as vBulletin and bcrypt hashes.
  • Date: Nov 2020
  • Domain: readmore.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 94,968
  • Lines: 94,968
  • Size: 11.73 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2011, lustpur.tv, a German adult television channel, allegedly had a database from its content-management and TV-programming system exposed. Reports suggest the dump was limited in scope, containing a single administrator account with an MD5-hashed password alongside the channel's departmental contact email addresses. No customer or subscriber records were present.
  • Date: 2011
  • Domain: lustpur.tv
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Pornography
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 10
  • Lines: 179
  • Size: 1.1 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2022, the German electronics and technology online retailer Technik-Profis.de allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that a database containing approximately 115,000 customer records was exposed. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, and geographic location details such as postal codes. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 115,550
  • Lines: 115,551
  • Size: 13.96 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime around 2020, slotbau.eu, a German-language online slot-machine and paidmail (get-paid-to) gaming platform, allegedly had its database exposed. Reports suggest approximately 530 user records were affected, including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, SHA-1-hashed passwords, and account registration and activity dates.
  • Date: 2020
  • Domain: slotbau.eu
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Betting
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 1,625
  • Lines: 16,837,144
  • Size: 1.35 GB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
At an unknown date, bwt-badewiese.de, a German Battlefield game-server community, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,300 player records were exposed, including usernames and MD5-hashed passwords. No email addresses were present.
  • Data: Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 1,297
  • Lines: 1,300
  • Size: 55.44 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In January 2020, the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund, dfb.de) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 18 million records were exposed, including email addresses along with MD5-hashed and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 25,819,705
  • Lines: 25,819,705
  • Size: 1.26 GB
  • Passwords: MD5, 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.