Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

On 12 March 2023, Happy CE / Happy-Compta (happyce.fr, happy-compta.fr), a French SaaS platform for managing works-council (CSE) accounting and expenses, allegedly suffered a data breach that was later shared publicly on hacking forums in 2025. Reports suggest the exposed database held records for roughly 19,000 individuals across the platform's member, user and supplier tables, including email addresses, names, postal addresses, phone numbers, genders, company details, bank account IBANs and bcrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Date: Mar 12, 2023
  • Domain: happyce.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Bank Account Information Payment Information Genders Company Information
  • Records: 98,119
  • Lines: 764,955
  • Size: 106.71 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In August 2023, a dataset scraped from annuaire.sante.fr, the official French national public directory of health professionals (RPPS/ADELI registry), was allegedly published on a hacking forum. The data originates from a September 2020 export of the directory. Approximately 2.8 million professional records were allegedly exposed, including full names, professions and specialties, professional email addresses (including MSSanté secure-mail addresses), phone numbers, practice addresses and employer/company names. No passwords were included.
  • Date: Aug 25, 2023
  • Domain: annuaire.sante.fr
  • Threat Actor: Lucius1337
  • Country: France
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Health Information Genders Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 2,840,561
  • Lines: 2,840,563
  • Size: 851.26 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2026, Centrale-canine.fr (the Société Centrale Canine, France's national kennel club and dog-breeding registry) allegedly suffered a partial data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data covered roughly 122,000 dog owners and exhibitors, spread across dog-show participation and exhibitor records, including owners' names, postal addresses, cities and postal codes, phone numbers, and genders (titles). No account passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Genders
  • Records: 464,235
  • Lines: 464,233
  • Size: 892.08 MB
  • Passwords: No
In September 2026, data belonging to the Registry of the Tribunal of Economic Activities of Paris (Greffe du Tribunal des Activités Économiques de Paris, greffe-tae-paris.fr) was allegedly leaked on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the data concerns the tribunal's judges, clerks, magistrates and lawyers, covering roughly 900 individuals. The compromised data included full names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, home and business addresses, job titles and employer names.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 1,365
  • Lines: 12,543
  • Size: 581.32 KB
  • Passwords: No
Afflelou 2025

Afflelou 2025

Sensitive
Sometime before 2025, the French optical retail chain Alain Afflelou (afflelou.com) allegedly suffered a data breach exposing customer and patient records from its stores. Reports suggest data on approximately 198,000 individuals was exposed. The compromised information reportedly includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, dates of birth, French social security numbers, and health-insurance details (CPAM / mutuelle). No passwords were included.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: afflelou.com
  • Country: France
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Social Security Numbers Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 198,570
  • Lines: 198,570
  • Size: 272.18 MB
  • Passwords: No
Europages (europages.com) is a pan-European B2B business directory. A dataset scraped from the platform, scoped to French business listings, was allegedly offered on a hacking forum. Reports suggest approximately 205,000 records were exposed, each corresponding to a business contact and allegedly including contact names, job titles, company names, business email addresses, phone numbers, physical and geographic locations (with coordinates), postal codes, and national business identifiers (VAT/SIREN/SIRET numbers). No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 205,402
  • Lines: 171,598
  • Size: 40.58 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2023, the French construction and logistics equipment-rental company EHCG (ehcg.fr), operating in the Hauts-de-France region, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed SQL database contained records for approximately 3,800 individuals, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, genders and SHA-1 hashed passwords. The dataset was later redistributed on hacking forums in 2025.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: ehcg.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Job Information
  • Records: 5,741
  • Lines: 1,389,952
  • Size: 2.69 GB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%

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.