Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

In November 2022, the UK online electronics retailer Duotech Electronics (duotechelectronics.co.uk) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed customer records contained approximately 3,100 individuals' data, including email addresses, phone numbers, geographic locations and customer activity dates. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 3,157
  • Lines: 3,158
  • Size: 511.74 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before November 2022, the UK online linens retailer Soft Touch Linens (softtouchlinens.co.uk) allegedly suffered a data breach. Soft Touch Linens is an e-commerce store selling bed linens and household textiles, operating on the Magento platform. It has been reported that the exposed data was extracted from the site's customer database. The breach reportedly exposed approximately 8,600 records, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, company information and account activity dates. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 8,631
  • Lines: 8,639
  • Size: 1.94 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2016, the UK community support forum of Hauppauge (hauppauge.co.uk), a manufacturer of TV tuner cards and video capture hardware, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that data for approximately 14,000 registered forum members was exposed, alongside an anti-spam registration log containing over 78,000 email addresses. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, vBulletin password hashes with salts, IP addresses, birthdates, and instant-messenger handles.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 85,985
  • Lines: 752,723
  • Size: 85.58 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2020, vnonline.co.uk, a UK news and community website for the veterinary nursing profession, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 12,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and passwords stored as a mix of MD5 hashes and plaintext.
  • Date: 2020
  • Domain: vnonline.co.uk
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: News & Media
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 14,406
  • Lines: 14,441
  • Size: 650.22 KB
  • Passwords: MD5, Plaintext
In November 2020, thecomicguru.co.uk — a UK comic book retailer — was allegedly compromised as part of the Cit0day breach collection, a set of more than 23,000 breached websites distributed on hacking forums. Reports suggest approximately 8,800 individuals were affected, with the exposed data including email addresses, usernames, and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 9,929
  • Lines: 9,942
  • Size: 543.8 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2020, the UK special-needs community site specialkidsintheuk.org allegedly suffered a data breach as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 4,200 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as bcrypt and salted vBulletin (MD5) hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 4,231
  • Lines: 4,231
  • Size: 432.21 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2020, the UK community website Rate That Driver (ratethatdriver.co.uk) allegedly suffered a data breach as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 4,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and passwords stored predominantly as SHA-1 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 4,184
  • Lines: 4,190
  • Size: 267.21 KB
  • Passwords: SHA-1, Plaintext

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.