Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2025, Gîtes de France (gites-de-france.com), a French holiday-rental network offering countryside and rural gîte stays, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest booking data for approximately 389,000 customers was exposed. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, postal addresses and booking details. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Order Information
  • Records: 252,137
  • Lines: 312,680
  • Size: 470.93 MB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2025, the Departement de l'Aude allegedly suffered a data breach. The Departement de l'Aude is the territorial government of the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France, and the exposed data appears to originate from its social-benefits (CAF/MSA) records. Reports suggest the personal data of approximately 216,000 individuals was exposed, including names, dates of birth, genders, French national identification numbers (NIR), postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: Aug 2025
  • Domain: aude.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Social Security Numbers Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 216,084
  • Lines: 216,084
  • Size: 90.16 MB
  • Passwords: No
In late 2023, Visa-E (visa-e.com), a French-language visa and travel-authorization agency that processes eVisa, ETA, ESTA and passenger-locator-form applications, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a database of approximately 100,000 travel-authorization applicants was exposed. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, full names, passport numbers, nationalities, phone numbers, dates of birth, IP addresses and geographic locations, along with a small number of staff account credentials hashed with MD5 and SHA-1.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: visa-e.com
  • Country: France
  • Category: Travel
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Passports Genders Site Activity Birthdates Nationalities
  • Records: 510,793
  • Lines: 416,940
  • Size: 138.97 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2023, MX3.fr allegedly suffered a data breach. MX3 is a French brand selling sports nutrition products such as isotonic drinks and freeze-dried sports meals through its online store. Reports suggest the exposed PrestaShop database contained roughly 30,000 customer records, including email addresses, names, MD5 and bcrypt password hashes, birthdates, IP addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, and company/tax identifiers.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: mx3.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Tax IDs Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 59,328
  • Lines: 36,080,053
  • Size: 2.42 GB
  • Passwords: MD5, BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In May 2026, EnVisite (envisite.net), a French platform providing real estate virtual tours that lets property professionals create and distribute interactive tours and multimedia listings, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed dataset contained approximately 138,000 property listing records covering roughly 1,900 real estate agents and agencies, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses and company information. No passwords were included.
  • Date: May 2026
  • Domain: envisite.net
  • Threat Actor: ChimeraZ
  • Country: France
  • Category: Real Estate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Company Information
  • Records: 138,987
  • Lines: 138,986
  • Size: 63.67 MB
  • Passwords: No
In May 2020, TR Helicopter Modelisme, a French online store specializing in radio-controlled helicopters and scale model kits, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 2,400 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, and hashed passwords.
  • Date: May 10, 2020
  • Domain: trhelicopter.com
  • Country: France
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 6,194
  • Lines: 1,374,074
  • Size: 68.85 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2015, CandyPvP (candypvp.fr), a French Minecraft PvP game server, allegedly suffered a data breach exposing the user database of its shop/forum platform. Reports suggest approximately 3,300 records were affected, including usernames, email addresses and SHA-256 password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 3,278
  • Lines: 3,333
  • Size: 672.34 KB
  • Passwords: SHA-256
  • 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.