Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In April 2025, the UK-based point-of-sale provider 3S-POS (3s-pos.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. 3S-POS supplies cloud-based POS systems to over 1,000 hospitality businesses. Reports suggest the exposed customer database, exported from the company's central production system, contained approximately 544,000 records. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, plaintext passwords, full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth, and account activity details.
  • Date: Apr 2025
  • Domain: 3s-pos.com
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 544,565
  • Lines: 544,565
  • Size: 85.95 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach impacting their services. The incident was later claimed by the FulcrumSec hacking group, who subsequently published email addresses and phone numbers relating to 8.7M customers of Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports. The data contained personal information relating to airport services, including vehicle registrations and parking history, Fast Track purchases and lounge bookings. In their disclosure notice, MAG advised that "at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised".
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Order Information IP Addresses Vehicle Information
  • Records: 581,338,373
  • Lines: 581,338,571
  • Size: 273.23 GB
  • Passwords: ?
In 2024, a credential dump targeting UK government online services (gov.uk, including the Government Gateway, HMRC tax services and other .service.gov.uk portals) was allegedly circulated, described as a re-upload of a dataset originally attributed to the threat actor USDoD. Reports suggest the file contained approximately 208,000 login records. It has been reported that the exposed data included the service URL, a Government Gateway user ID or email address, and a plaintext password.
  • Date: Sep 2024
  • Domain: gov.uk
  • Threat Actor: USDoD
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 208,521
  • Lines: 208,521
  • Size: 11.89 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In August 2026, Nottingham Trent University (ntu.ac.uk) allegedly suffered a data breach in which a threat actor claimed to have accessed its applicant portal (webapps.ntu.ac.uk). Reports suggest the data of two applicants was exposed, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, nationalities, home addresses, portal credentials, and copies of identity documents. This incident is reported as distinct from the separate ShinyHunters-linked breach affecting the University of Nottingham.
  • Date: Aug 19, 2026
  • Domain: ntu.ac.uk
  • Threat Actor: ShadowByt3$
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: Education
  • Source: ransomware.live
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Birthdates Nationalities
  • Records: 3
  • Lines: 64
  • Size: 1.47 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime before August 2026, the Supply Chain Academy learning-management platform of Morgan Sindall Group, a UK construction and regeneration group, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that a backup database covering approximately 9,000 supplier and subcontractor users was exposed. The exposed data allegedly included names, email addresses, IP addresses, company information, site-activity records and account passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: 2026
  • Domain: morgansindall.com
  • Threat Actor: Persistent
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: Industry
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 17,794
  • Lines: 994,104
  • Size: 141.92 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2026, the UK medical-education platform OSCEstop (oscestop.education) allegedly suffered a data breach. OSCEstop is an online revision and question-bank service used by medical students and doctors preparing for OSCE clinical examinations. Reports suggest a WordPress database export was obtained and later shared on hacking forums. The leak allegedly exposed approximately 13,800 individuals, with compromised data including email addresses, usernames, full names, account registration dates, IP addresses, and passwords stored as WordPress (bcrypt) and PHPass hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames Government IDs IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 53,942
  • Lines: 1,361,252
  • Size: 616.45 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, PHPass, WordPress
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2025, Sunburst Snacks (sunburstsnacks.co.uk), a UK-based snacks retailer running a WooCommerce/WordPress store, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the site's database was extracted and published on a hacking forum. It has been reported that around 2,300 customer and user accounts were exposed, including full names, email addresses, usernames, postal addresses, and account passwords stored as WordPress phpass hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 8,259
  • Lines: 1,244,069
  • Size: 312.66 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • 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.