Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

In February 2025, the French private security-training school École Nationale de Sécurité (ecolenationalesecurite.fr), which trains security agents and guards, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a trainee dataset of approximately 29,000 records was exposed, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical and birth-related addresses, dates of birth, genders, nationalities, French social security numbers, and education details. The data reportedly did not contain passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Social Security Numbers Genders Birthdates Nationalities Education
  • Records: 29,102
  • Lines: 29,102
  • Size: 4.73 MB
  • Passwords: No
In July 2026, ESGI (École Supérieure de Génie Informatique), a private French higher-education school specialising in IT and digital technology with campuses across France, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a student-enrollment database was exposed, affecting approximately 26,000 individuals. It has been reported that the compromised data included full names, personal and school email addresses, mobile phone numbers, physical addresses, cities, postal codes, nationalities, and enrollment details such as class, program, and school year. No passwords were included in the exposed records.
  • Date: Jul 8, 2026
  • Domain: esgi.fr
  • Threat Actor: 84City
  • Country: France
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Site Activity Nationalities Education
  • Records: 26,451
  • Lines: 26,600
  • Size: 14.14 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2025, a dataset of customer and professional invoices from SOCOTEC (socotec.fr / socotec-pros.fr), a large French testing, inspection and certification company, was allegedly leaked on hacking forums. Reports suggest the dump contained roughly 8,400 invoices, from which customer company names, individual contact names, postal addresses, tax identifiers, and financial/billing details can be extracted. No account passwords were included.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: socotec.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Names Geographic Locations Financial Information Company Information
  • Records: 8,483
  • Lines: 8,481
  • Size: 79.39 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before mid-2026, a directory of Century 21 France employees and agents (century21.fr) — the French arm of the Century 21 real-estate franchise — was allegedly exposed in a data breach. Reports suggest data for approximately 21,000 employees and agents was released. The exposed data included names, usernames, work email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, hire dates, employment status (salaried / commercial agent), professional activity and career-background information. The dataset did not contain passwords.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: century21.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Real Estate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Job Information Birthdates
  • Records: 21,013
  • Lines: 21,013
  • Size: 8.71 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2025, the University of Lille (univ-lille.fr), one of the largest public research universities in France, allegedly had a database from its internship/placement management system leaked on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the data covered roughly 2,700 individuals — students, teaching staff, and company contacts — and included professional and personal email addresses, first and last names, student IDs, phone numbers, birthdates, and postal addresses, along with company details for partner organizations. No account passwords were included beyond a small set of staff auth tokens.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 7,709
  • Lines: 7,243
  • Size: 4.06 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
In September 2024, Albert Ménès — a renowned French gourmet-food company producing jams, spreads, dried herbs and spice mixes since 1921 — allegedly suffered a data breach of its online store (albertmenes.fr). The store ran on the PrestaShop platform. Reports suggest data for approximately 21,000 customers was exposed. The exposed data included customer email addresses, first and last names, birthdates, some company names and SIRET numbers, registration IP addresses, and passwords stored as bcrypt and legacy MD5 hashes.
  • Date: Sep 2024
  • Domain: albertmenes.fr
  • Threat Actor: grepcn
  • Country: France
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations IP Addresses Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 21,156
  • Lines: 21,157
  • Size: 3.02 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2026, a partial database from Campus France (campusfrance.org / toucan.campusfrance.org), the French government agency managing international student applications, was allegedly leaked and published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the export contained around 18,000 study-application records, exposing applicants' full names, email addresses, nationalities, chosen programs and institutions, and application dates. No passwords were included.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: campusfrance.org
  • Threat Actor: ChimeraZ
  • Country: France
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Site Activity Nationalities
  • Records: 18,637
  • Lines: 18,636
  • Size: 431.02 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.