Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

Sometime before June 2026, the French regional employment platform Local'Emploi (localemploi.fr), which aggregates local job offers in the Paris-Saclay area for candidates and recruiters, allegedly suffered a data breach that was published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed data covered approximately 11,000 job seekers plus recruiter and company contacts, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal locations, dates of birth, and employer/company information. No passwords were included.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: localemploi.fr
  • Threat Actor: 0xSec
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 26,930
  • Lines: 26,934
  • Size: 3.02 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2026, a staff directory of the Académie de Nice (ac-nice.fr) — the French national-education authority for the Nice academic region — was allegedly exposed in a data breach. Reports suggest data for approximately 23,000 records was released, drawn from an internal personnel directory. The exposed data included staff email addresses, names, job/role and department information, the school or administrative establishment of assignment, and (for a small subset) phone numbers and postal addresses. The dataset did not contain passwords.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: ac-nice.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Site Activity Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 25,389
  • Lines: 23,847
  • Size: 8.63 MB
  • Passwords: No
In July 2024, a customer database belonging to Durer Plus (durerplus.fr) allegedly appeared on a hacking forum. Durer Plus is a French online retailer of health and wellness products. Reports suggest the exposed data was a customer-list export containing approximately 3,500 records, comprising customer titles (Monsieur/Madame), first and last names, email addresses, and account registration and last-visit dates. No passwords were included.
  • Date: Jul 2024
  • Domain: durerplus.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Time Zones
  • Records: 3,493
  • Lines: 3,533
  • Size: 433.03 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before December 2025, contact data belonging to employees of the French energy company EDF (Électricité de France) was allegedly exposed. It has been reported that the data was extracted from an internal contact directory (an Ivalua-based portal) and subsequently published on a hacking forum. The incident allegedly affected approximately 32,000 individuals, with the compromised records including names, corporate email addresses, phone numbers, job/department information and company details. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: Dec 2025
  • Domain: edf.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Job Information Company Information Telecom Providers
  • Records: 32,167
  • Lines: 32,167
  • Size: 13.59 MB
  • Passwords: No
INSEI 2025

INSEI 2025

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Sometime before 2025, INSEI (insei.fr), the French national higher-education institute for inclusive education (formerly INSHEA), allegedly had a student/staff database exposed. Reports suggest the leak contained a civil-status export of approximately 1,300 individuals, including full names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, alongside a set of supporting documents (identity cards, passports and health cards). No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: insei.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Birthdates Nationalities
  • Records: 1,303
  • Lines: 1,302
  • Size: 974.95 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2025, the Académie de Lille (ac-lille.fr), a regional education authority of the French Ministry of Education, allegedly suffered a data breach. The threat actor group known as AplaGroup claimed responsibility, stating the data was obtained by exploiting an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability. It has been reported that an address book of approximately 1,000 staff agents was exposed. The compromised data allegedly included full names, professional email addresses, and phone numbers. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: ac-lille.fr
  • Threat Actor: AplaGroup
  • Country: France
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 1,021
  • Lines: 1,021
  • Size: 523.79 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2025, a staff directory belonging to the Académie d'Aix-Marseille (ac-aix-marseille.fr) allegedly appeared on a hacking forum. The Académie d'Aix-Marseille is the French Ministry of Education's regional education authority for the Aix-Marseille and Nice (PACA) region. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 4,500 agent (staff) records, comprising professional email addresses, office phone numbers and office/building addresses. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations
  • Records: 4,529
  • Lines: 4,592
  • Size: 925.58 KB
  • 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.