Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2018, the French-language DDoS-for-hire service Alienboot.net allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 4,300 user records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, SHA-1 password hashes, names, geographic locations, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 4,514
  • Lines: 110,754
  • Size: 11.12 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2013, National-Stresser, a French-language DDoS-for-hire ("stresser/booter") service that sold subscription-based denial-of-service attacks to its users, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,900 individuals were exposed, including usernames, SHA-512 password hashes, and a smaller set of subscriber email addresses.
  • Date: 2013
  • Country: France
  • Category: Hacking
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 1,945
  • Lines: 5,038
  • Size: 492.94 KB
  • Passwords: SHA-512
  • Cracked: 0%
In September 2007, the FTP backup of a personal Joomla-based website hosted on Free.fr's user-hosting subdomain (eipod.ftp.free.fr) was allegedly exposed. Reports suggest the leak contains an SQL dump of the site's content management system, exposing approximately 15 individuals through email addresses, usernames, full names, MD5 password hashes, IP addresses, geographic location data, and embedded website activity records.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 23
  • Lines: 1,913
  • Size: 525.16 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2019, the French construction-industry marketplace Hesus (hesus-store.com), which matches construction job sites with soil treatment and evacuation centers, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,400 individuals were affected, with exposed records containing email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, site activity, and salted SHA-512 password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 19,290
  • Lines: 324,905
  • Size: 229.05 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before October 2017, Noveo Solutions allegedly suffered a data breach. Noveo Solutions is a French office-supplies retailer operating the PrestaShop e-commerce site "JC Bureautique" (bureautique.noveo-solutions.com), headquartered in Alès, Gard, France. Reports suggest approximately 410,000 individuals were exposed, with data including email addresses, MD5-hashed passwords, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, genders, IP addresses, site activity, birthdates, fax numbers, and company information for a regional B2B prospect list.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information Fax Numbers Birthdates
  • Records: 507,712
  • Lines: 3,785,674
  • Size: 186.32 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime in May 2020, FreeGen.pw, a French-language website that allegedly distributed cracked premium accounts (Netflix, Spotify, NordVPN, and others) sourced from combo lists, suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 370,000 individuals were affected. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, plaintext passwords, BCrypt-hashed passwords, IP addresses, and site activity records.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 481,064
  • Lines: 482,503
  • Size: 36.89 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 5758%
Sometime before 2019, the website Aitanadesign.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Aïtana Design is a French brand strategy and graphic design studio based in Biarritz. Reports suggest a small WordPress dump was exposed, including emails, usernames, names, PHPass-hashed passwords and site activity records.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 32
  • Lines: 2,000
  • Size: 5.27 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • 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.