Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2025, SDIS 34 (sdis34.fr), the Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de l'Hérault — the public fire and emergency service for the Hérault department in France — allegedly had a personnel roster leaked and shared for free on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the file was published by a threat actor using the handle Wumpus Sec. Although the listing claimed around 5,900 staff records, the data contained roughly 60 distinct personnel entries (the rest being duplicated rows), including staff names, ranks, and fire-station assignments. No passwords were included in the data.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: sdis34.fr
  • Threat Actor: Wumpus Sec
  • Country: France
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Names Geographic Locations Job Information
  • Records: 60
  • Lines: 5,940
  • Size: 294.96 KB
  • Passwords: No
In 2026, Ressource'brie (ressourcebrie.fr), a French volunteer-run resource center and non-profit association dedicated to environmental protection and recycling, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a full SQL database dump of its internal management, HR, and application systems was shared on a hacking forum. It has been reported that approximately 270 records were exposed, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, dates of birth, usernames, and bcrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Security Credentials Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 275
  • Lines: 189,844
  • Size: 25.22 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2025, journaux.fr, the main French website for the online sale of newspapers and magazines by issue or subscription, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest billing and delivery records were extracted and shared on a hacking forum. It has been reported that approximately 270,000 records were exposed, including full names, postal addresses, cities, postal codes, countries, and salutations. No passwords were included in the data.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: journaux.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: News & Media
  • Data: Names Physical Locations Geographic Locations Genders Company Information
  • Records: 271,622
  • Lines: 271,622
  • Size: 180.28 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before August 2026, a Drupal database belonging to Accelero Web (acceleroweb.com), a French web agency, was allegedly leaked on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed data covered roughly 3,200 email addresses, primarily newsletter subscribers and form respondents, along with a small set of staff accounts. It has been reported that the compromised data included email addresses, names, and Drupal ($S$) password hashes for the staff accounts.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 3,236
  • Lines: 80,183
  • Size: 14.34 MB
  • Passwords: Drupal
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before August 2026, a PrestaShop customer database belonging to publica.fr, a site managed by the French digital agency Adveris, was allegedly leaked on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed data covered roughly 650 customers. It has been reported that the compromised data included email addresses, names, MD5 password hashes, phone numbers, postal addresses, genders, dates of birth and IP addresses.
  • Date: Aug 2026
  • Domain: adveris.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Genders Birthdates IP Addresses
  • Records: 894
  • Lines: 478,850
  • Size: 26.8 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2022, contact records for Réunion Island (a French overseas department) were allegedly scraped from LocateFamily.com — a worldwide people-search directory where users self-register their contact details — and published on hacking forums as part of a country-by-country release. It has been reported that this dataset contained approximately 2,294 entries, with data including full names, phone numbers and full postal addresses (street, city and postal code). No email addresses or passwords were included.
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations
  • Records: 2,293
  • Lines: 2,294
  • Size: 194.2 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before July 2026, a database from a subdomain of ODS Batipro33 (batipro33.fr), a Qualiopi-certified building-trades training organisation based in Gironde, France, was allegedly leaked on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed data covered roughly 1,000 trainees, apprentices and staff. It has been reported that the compromised data included email addresses, names, dates of birth, French social-security numbers, postal addresses, phone numbers, genders, employer/company details, and bcrypt/argon2 password hashes for staff accounts.
  • Date: Jul 2026
  • Domain: batipro33.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Government IDs Genders Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 2,648
  • Lines: 163,660
  • Size: 378.45 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • 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.