Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2019, the French Minecraft PvP game server Arcosia-PvP (arcosia-pvp.fr) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 200 player records were exposed. The exposed data was limited to usernames.
  • Data: Usernames
  • Records: 200
  • Lines: 215
  • Size: 5.92 KB
  • Passwords: ?
In July 2024, the French social network Rencontre-Ados, known for connecting teenagers, experienced a data breach. Reports suggest that the breach exposed approximately 346,415 user accounts. Among the compromised data were names, dates of birth, geographic locations, genders, sexual orientations, marital statuses, job information, physical descriptions (including heights, sizes, hair and eye colors), number of children, smoking and drinking habits, religions, and photos.
  • Data: Names Geographic Locations Sexual Orientations Marital Statuses Genders Religions Site Activity Profile Photos Job Information Birthdates Physical Descriptions
  • Records: 346,415
  • Lines: 346,414
  • Size: 232.03 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2021, the French e-cigarette and vape retailer Taklope (taklope.com) allegedly suffered a data breach of its PrestaShop online store. Reports suggest the exposed data affected approximately 269,000 customers and included email addresses, full names, dates of birth, IP addresses, and company information. Passwords were reportedly stored as MD5 and salted SHA-1 hashes.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: taklope.com
  • Country: France
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names IP Addresses Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 269,477
  • Lines: 269,612
  • Size: 83.85 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In June 2024, a data brach sourced from French fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers and genders. When contacted about the incident, Zadig & Voltaire advised the incident had occurred more than 6 months ago and that "all measures were taken quickly".
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Genders
  • Records: 587,985
  • Lines: 638,742
  • Size: 111.65 MB
  • Passwords: No
In June 2022, the French Security Company Lifebox suffered a data breach that impacted 74.6k customers. The leak led to the exposure of data including Full names, Email addresses, Dates of birth, IP Addresses, Physical addresses and Passwords stored as MD5 (Salt missing) hashes. The website was breached by @LeakBase.
  • Date: Jun 2022
  • Domain: lifebox.fr
  • Threat Actor: LeakBase
  • Country: France
  • Category: Cybersecurity
  • Source: lifebox.fr
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Physical Locations IP Addresses Birthdates
  • Records: 79,035
  • Lines: 441,762
  • Size: 68.08 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In approximately January 2022, the online store belonging to French e-cigarette and vape company Taklope suffered a data breach. The attack led to the exposure of data including Full names, Email addresses, Dates of birth and Passwords stored as MD5($salt.$pass) hashes (Static salt). In total, 269k users were affected.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Birthdates
  • Records: 269,477
  • Lines: 269,612
  • Size: 83.85 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2017, the French girl-gaming website Jeux-Fille-Gratuit.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the data was first distributed by a threat actor known as "Fr4n" and later reposted on other hacking forums. The exposed data reportedly contained approximately 615,000 records, including email addresses, usernames, ages, and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames Ages
  • Records: 753,939
  • Lines: 753,941
  • Size: 23.52 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext

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.