Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Talk Business Magazine, a British online publication offering advice, tips, and inspiration for startups and entrepreneurs in various business sectors, allegedly suffered a data breach. Approximately 4 records were reportedly compromised, including email addresses, passwords, names, usernames, site activity, and websites. The compromised passwords were hashed using PHPass.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 4
  • Lines: 79
  • Size: 13.24 KB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2021, RCTank Warfare allegedly suffered a data breach. RCTank Warfare is an online forum dedicated to enthusiasts of RC tank models, offering a community space for discussions, advice, and sharing related to remotely controlled tank models. Reports suggest that approximately 7,800 records were compromised during the incident. The data exposed includes email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, site activity, social profiles, websites, birthdates, and hashed passwords using PHPass and SHA-1.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 7,762
  • Lines: 7,868
  • Size: 6.92 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass, SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2011, the website for Great Marlow School, gms.bucks.sch.uk, allegedly suffered a data breach. Great Marlow School is a co-educational secondary school with academy status, situated in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. Reports suggest that the breach affected approximately 3 records. Compromised data included email addresses, passwords, names, usernames, and site activity, with passwords reportedly hashed using PHPass.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 3
  • Lines: 38
  • Size: 2.75 KB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF), a UK-based charity that brings together Christian doctors and medical students to pursue professional development, spiritual growth, and medical ethics in alignment with their faith, allegedly suffered a data breach. The incident reportedly involved the exposure of approximately 406 records, including email addresses, IP addresses, site activity, and websites. No passwords were reported breached in this incident.
  • Domain: cmf.org.uk
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: Non-Profit & Charities
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 406
  • Lines: 6,641
  • Size: 16.42 MB
  • Passwords: No
In January 2017, the website horseandhound.co.uk, a UK-based platform dedicated to news and services for the equine and countryside enthusiast community, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the incident exposed approximately 95,089 records including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and passwords stored as vBulletin hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 95,089
  • Lines: 95,337
  • Size: 8.46 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 79%
In February 2014, Tesco, a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer, allegedly experienced a data breach. It has been reported that 2,241 records containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and balance information were exposed.
  • Data: Balances Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 2,241
  • Lines: 2,351
  • Size: 177.92 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2020, the Apache Industrial Workwear, a United Kingdom-based e-commerce platform specializing in industrial clothing and workwear products, allegedly experienced a data breach. Reports suggest that roughly 14,991 records were exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, and passwords encrypted with MD5 Salted.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 14,991
  • Lines: 15,405
  • Size: 2.66 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • 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.