Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

On May 5, 2024, a threat actor using the alias "Napoleon" claimed responsibility for a data breach affecting Hoy-voy.com, a Spanish driving school platform. The breach was allegedly disclosed on a popular hacking forum and involved a CSV file containing approximately 200,000 records. Among the compromised data were names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical locations, birthdates, genders, government-issued IDs, education details, family member information, and passwords hashed using the MD5 algorithm.
  • Date: May 5, 2024
  • Domain: hoy-voy.com
  • Threat Actor: Napoleon
  • Country: Spain
  • Category: Automotive
  • Data: Birthdates Education Email Addresses Family Members Genders Government IDs Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 205,342
  • Lines: 205,343
  • Size: 159.91 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 88%
On April 21, 2024, a user named 'dsf' posted data from Expandia, a Spanish marketing firm, on a hacking forum. This leak revealed information on 18 million companies, including 303,000 unique email addresses linked to user accounts. The company data comprised full names, physical addresses, CUPs numbers and phone numbers.
  • Date: 2024
  • Domain: expandia.com.es
  • Country: Spain
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: CUPS Number Email Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 18,896,076
  • Lines: 18,896,078
  • Size: 2.11 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
SEAT.ES Spain Official Website, configure your car and discover the offers and services website experienced a data breach in around 2021. Data including names, email addresses, phones, and passwords were exposed as a result of the incident. 703k people were impacted in total.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: seat.es
  • Country: Spain
  • Category: Automotive
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 703,290
  • Lines: 703,324
  • Size: 748.13 MB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately September 2022, the Spanish forum Foro del Guardia Civil suffered a data breach that impacted 233k users. The leak led to the exposure of data including Usernames, Email addresses, Dates of birth, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as vBulletin hashes. Please note that there is quite a few botted entries due to the website not implementing any captcha.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 233,279
  • Lines: 233,280
  • Size: 82.35 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
On May 17, 2016, an anonymous hacktivist known as Phineas Fisher, breached the Catalan Police Union database, exposing personal data of around 10,000 officers, including full names, email addresses, government IDs, phone numbers, physical addresses and even bank details. This hack was politically motivated, aiming to highlight issues within law enforcement and advocate for transparency. The website was compromised by exploiting a SQL injection.
  • Data: Bank Account Information Email Addresses Genders Government IDs Law Enforcement Structure Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 9,654
  • Lines: 9,658
  • Size: 2.02 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 94%
In July 2021, AndroidLista, a site providing reviews of Android applications and games, allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 6.6 million user records. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, names, usernames, and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The breached information was later published on a popular hacking forum.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 6,612,000
  • Lines: 1,224
  • Size: 1.04 GB
  • Passwords: SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
The full SQL dump database of the Spanish branch of the Zurich Insurance Company The dump contains 4.246.656 lines with data from the company's insurance policies of the company.
  • Date: Jun 29, 2021
  • Domain: zurich.com
  • Country: Spain
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Government IDs Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 1,369,141
  • Lines: 4,260,756
  • Size: 2.69 GB
  • 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.