Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

In May 2016, the website of arc-cinema.fr, a French cinema, allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that a WordPress database export was exposed, containing a single administrator account. The compromised information allegedly included an email address, a username and a WordPress (phpass) password hash.
  • Date: May 10, 2016
  • Domain: arc-cinema.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Streaming & Entertainment
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 1
  • Lines: 1,340
  • Size: 333.75 KB
  • Passwords: PHPass, WordPress
  • Cracked: 0%
In June 2021, Pôle emploi — France's national public employment agency — allegedly suffered a data breach reportedly originating from one of its external service providers. Reports suggest the data of approximately 1.3 million job seekers was exposed. The leaked records allegedly included names, email addresses, phone numbers, ages, geographic locations and job-related information. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Job Information Ages
  • Records: 1,285,474
  • Lines: 1,285,474
  • Size: 876.1 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2015, womencup.fr allegedly suffered a data breach. Womencup.fr was the website of the Women's Cup, a French women's charity sailing regatta. Reports suggest a public WordPress database dump exposed roughly 750 individuals, including email addresses, usernames, geographic locations and site activity, along with a small number of password hashes (phpass).
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: womencup.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Sports
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 1,964
  • Lines: 8,472
  • Size: 7.07 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In June 2024, the French association UTL Lille (Université du Temps Libre de Lille, utllille.fr), which organises lifelong-learning lectures and activities, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a full database export was published on hacking forums, exposing approximately 5,100 individuals. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical and geographic locations, dates of birth, genders, job information, IP addresses, site activity, and account passwords stored as MySQL hashes.
  • Date: Jun 20, 2024
  • Domain: utllille.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 24,786
  • Lines: 164,466
  • Size: 22.63 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2015, Miala.fr, a small French WordPress website, allegedly suffered a data breach that was later reposted on hacking forums. Reports suggest the exposed WordPress database contained a small number of records — a handful of site accounts plus emails and details harvested from blog comments and posts. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, usernames and PHPass-hashed passwords.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: miala.fr
  • Threat Actor: Sophia
  • Country: France
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 316
  • Lines: 11,100
  • Size: 3.6 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2025, the French marketing and customer-service company Vitalis (vitalis.fr) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident occurred on 18 March 2025 via an SQL injection attack against its customer database, exposing approximately 202,500 records. The compromised data allegedly included names, email addresses, phone numbers, and company information. No passwords were reported as part of the exposed data.
  • Date: Mar 18, 2025
  • Domain: vitalis.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Company Information
  • Records: 202,568
  • Lines: 202,569
  • Size: 6.06 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before September 2026, Leroch Distribution (leroch-distribution.fr), a French company specialising in the import, sale and rental of agricultural equipment, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest its hosted CRM database (on the BlgCloud platform) was exposed, including customer and company records and internal email correspondence. The compromised data reportedly includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses and company information (including VAT numbers). No passwords were included in the exposed records.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Company Information
  • Records: 16,412
  • Lines: 375,433
  • Size: 338.7 MB
  • 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.