Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In October 2015, the UK telecommunications provider TalkTalk (talktalk.net) allegedly suffered a data breach. TalkTalk is a British company providing broadband, TV, and mobile phone services. Reports suggest the exposed data, drawn from SIM order records, affected approximately 5,000 individuals. The compromised information included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, geographic locations, genders, and bank account details. No passwords were exposed.
  • Date: Oct 2015
  • Domain: talktalk.net
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Bank Account Information Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 5,087
  • Lines: 274,957
  • Size: 9.25 MB
  • Passwords: No
In late 2021, Cubitts, a British independent eyewear retailer operating at cubitts.com, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its customer database. Reports suggest approximately 170,000 individuals were exposed, with compromised data including email addresses, full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, account creation dates, and salted SHA-512 password hashes.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: cubitts.com
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 172,084
  • Lines: 172,223
  • Size: 26.77 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2019, Lastolitevideos.com allegedly suffered a data breach. The site was a video tutorial platform operated by Lastolite, a UK-based photography lighting equipment manufacturer, also running a companion Lastolite School of Photography site. Reports suggest approximately 6 accounts were exposed, comprising staff and administrator accounts across both sites, with data including email addresses, usernames, passwords (phpass hashes and plaintext), websites, and account activity dates.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 16
  • Lines: 23,730
  • Size: 10.34 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass, Plaintext
Sometime before 2023, the forum of the British Cactus and Succulent Society (forum.bcss.org.uk) allegedly suffered a data breach. The BCSS is a UK society for cacti and succulent enthusiasts. It has been reported that approximately 7,000 individuals were affected. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, bcrypt and phpass password hashes, IP addresses, geographic locations, websites, social profiles, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Languages
  • Records: 255,320
  • Lines: 9,905,355
  • Size: 797.31 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before August 2023, Afripay (afripay.co.uk) allegedly suffered a data breach. Afripay is a UK-based money transfer and payment service focused on remittances to African countries. Reports suggest the stolen database was offered for sale on the Nulled.to forum by a user known as "zxcv16". Approximately 3,500 distinct individuals were exposed, including email addresses, plaintext passwords, MD5 password hashes, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, genders, IP addresses, site activity, job information, company information, and birthdates.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 104,845
  • Lines: 15,329,450
  • Size: 6.32 GB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 296%
In approximately March 2021, the UK-based e-commerce website Galactic Games (galacticgames.co.uk), a now-defunct retailer of new and pre-owned video games, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 50,000 user records, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, and passwords stored as OpenCart hashes (SHA-1 salted and MD5).
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 50,110
  • Lines: 50,170
  • Size: 9.05 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2018, Disability Arts Online (DAO), a UK-based non-profit arts organisation supporting disabled artists, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 4,500 individuals were affected, with exposed records including email addresses, BCrypt and MD5 password hashes, names, phone numbers, geographic locations (UK addresses and postcodes), site activity, websites, job titles, and company/organisation information.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Websites Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 15,361
  • Lines: 101,488
  • Size: 67.42 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5
  • 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.