Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In June 2015, Minefield, a French Minecraft server, allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 188,000 member records. The IP.Board-based forum reportedly leaked email addresses, IP addresses, dates of birth, and passwords stored as salted hashes, though the weak implementation allowed many to be quickly cracked.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Site Activity Usernames
  • Records: 188,334
  • Lines: 188,428
  • Size: 90.63 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 80%
In January 2021, the French travel company Bourse des Vols suffered a data breach that exposed 1.46M unique email addresses across more than 1.2k .sql files and over 9GB of data. The impacted data exposed personal information and travel histories including names, phone numbers, IP and physical addresses, dates of birth along with flights taken and purchases.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Names Order Information Phone Numbers Physical Locations Travel Habits
  • Records: 2,588,081
  • Lines: 3,808,481
  • Size: 387.55 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2021, Influentia.fr, a French digital marketing agency, experienced a data breach that compromised the personal data of a significant number of its clients. The breach exposed sensitive information, including usernames, genders, ages, and other confidential details related to their marketing activities.
  • Date: Nov 15, 2021
  • Domain: influentia.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Ages Genders Geographic Locations Languages Messages Site Activity Usernames
  • Records: 49,401,821
  • Lines: 49,410,966
  • Size: 7.93 GB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2024, French retailer LDLC disclosed a data breach that impacted customers of their physical stores. The data was previously listed for sale on a popular hacking forum and contained 1.26M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Salutations
  • Records: 1,504,635
  • Lines: 1,504,634
  • Size: 692.04 MB
  • Passwords: No

Jassume 2020

Sensitive
In approximately May 2020, the French dating site Jassume (jassume.com) suffered a data breach. The breach led to the exposure of data including Usernames, Email addresses, Dates of birth and Passwords stored in Plaintext. In total, 792k users were affected.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 689,824
  • Lines: 792,209
  • Size: 260.26 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In approximately June 2024, the French sports store Sport2000, known for sporting goods and apparel, suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the breach was orchestrated by an individual using the pseudonym anonyme1456, who publicly posted the information on a popular hacking forum. The breach exposed data including over 3.2 million unique email addresses and account balances. Among the compromised data were account balances, dates of birth, names, phone numbers, physical locations, and website activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Balances Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 4,375,147
  • Lines: 4,376,037
  • Size: 1.12 GB
  • Passwords: No
In April 2024, the French underwear maker Le Slip Français suffered a data breach. The breach included 1.5M email addresses, physical addresses, names and phone numbers.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 1,506,391
  • Lines: 1,506,392
  • Size: 148.82 MB
  • 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.