Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2025, Petits-fils (petits-fils.com), a French network of home-care agencies providing in-home assistance to elderly and dependent people, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a directory of the network's agency staff was exposed and subsequently shared on a hacking forum. It has been reported that approximately 1,000 individuals were affected, with the exposed data including names, corporate email addresses, mobile and landline phone numbers, postal addresses, job titles, profile photos, and some birthdates. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Profile Photos Websites Job Information Birthdates
  • Records: 1,050
  • Lines: 1,050
  • Size: 1.06 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2026, data associated with cloud.numerique.gouv.fr, the official portal of the French State's interministerial digital and cloud strategy ("Cloud au centre" doctrine, managed by DINUM), was allegedly leaked. Reports suggest the dataset contained roughly 31,000 rows of largely administrative and reference data (public-body registries, cloud transactions, product and supplier catalogs), of which the searchable personal records amount to approximately 500 open-source contributors, including names, usernames, email addresses, employer/company names, and locations drawn from git commit metadata. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 2,000
  • Lines: 2,014
  • Size: 429.86 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2026, the French clairvoyance service Ici Voyance (ici-voyance.fr) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed customer database contained approximately 10,000 records, including email addresses, full names, phone numbers, and physical addresses. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: ici-voyance.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations
  • Records: 10,137
  • Lines: 10,138
  • Size: 680.66 KB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2025, data belonging to Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France (EEDF), a French secular co-educational Scouting association, was allegedly leaked. Reports suggest that the records of approximately 44,000 members were exposed, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, dates and places of birth, genders, and professions, as well as the contact details of members' legal guardians. The data was subsequently shared on a hacking forum.
  • Date: Mar 2025
  • Domain: eedf.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Others
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Job Information Birthdates
  • Records: 44,156
  • Lines: 44,201
  • Size: 1.8 MB
  • Passwords: No
In November 2025, AFPPCD-IDF, a French professional training association for dental assistants based in the Île-de-France (Paris) region, allegedly suffered a data breach after its extranet was compromised. The exposed data, publicly disclosed in January 2026, allegedly contained around 24,000 records of trainees and apprentices. The compromised information allegedly included names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, dates and places of birth, genders, and French social security numbers (NIR). No passwords were reportedly included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Social Security Numbers Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 24,868
  • Lines: 24,868
  • Size: 18.15 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before October 2024, Chiva Immobilier (chiva-immobilier.fr), a French real estate agency based in Aurillac (later rebranded Laforêt Aurillac), allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the website's database was exposed, affecting property sellers, prospective buyers who submitted inquiries, newsletter/alert subscribers, and job applicants. The compromised data allegedly included names, email addresses, phone numbers, geographic locations, and, for a small number of administrator accounts, SHA-256 password hashes and a plaintext password. Approximately 1,200 unique individuals were affected.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 2,432
  • Lines: 357,451
  • Size: 18.92 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-256, Plaintext
In 2026, Lenormant.fr allegedly suffered a data breach. Lenormant is a French company specializing in the sale and distribution of agricultural equipment, machinery, tools, spare parts, and professional equipment. It has been reported that the breach originated from the company's BlgCloud CRM platform. Reports suggest approximately 60,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, postal addresses, job titles, and genders. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: 2026
  • Domain: lenormant.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Job Information
  • Records: 309,122
  • Lines: 256,606
  • Size: 1.66 GB
  • 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.