Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

Sometime around 2020, a POS/agent onboarding portal of Airtel Payments Bank (portal.airtelbank.com, India) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest data for approximately 47,000 customers and retail agents was exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, addresses, birthdates, genders, Aadhaar national ID numbers, bank account details, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 128,968
  • Lines: 4,490,911
  • Size: 257.76 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2022, the Indian online shopping store Shaye (shaye.co.in), running on Magento, allegedly had a sales-order database exposed on hacking forums. Reports suggest orders covering approximately 35,000 unique customers were affected. The compromised data included email addresses, names, and geographic locations (billing and shipping addresses). No passwords were included in the leak.
  • Date: Nov 2022
  • Domain: shaye.co.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Site Activity Geographic Locations
  • Records: 63,925
  • Lines: 63,987
  • Size: 18.42 MB
  • Passwords: No
In November 2022, the Indian online store Musiq Karaokes (musiqkaraokes.in), which sells MP3 karaoke tracks and runs on Magento, allegedly suffered a data breach that was shared on hacking forums. Reports suggest a customer database of approximately 43,000 accounts was exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, and geographic locations. The account set is heavily inflated by spam-bot registrations. No passwords were included in the leak.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 43,184
  • Lines: 47,886
  • Size: 11.44 MB
  • Passwords: No
In October 2022, the Indian online gift store DAC Gift (dacgift.com) allegedly suffered a data breach of its Magento platform. Reports suggest approximately 8,100 customer records were exposed, consisting mainly of email addresses along with a small number of names, phone numbers, and addresses. Many entries are spam-bot registrations. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: Oct 28, 2022
  • Domain: dacgift.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 8,157
  • Lines: 8,161
  • Size: 2.13 MB
  • Passwords: No
Around 2022, vdcstore.com, an India-based online retailer, allegedly suffered a data breach exposing a customer database whose records date back to 2014. Reports suggest approximately 39,000 individuals were affected. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, company information, and site activity. No passwords were included in the exposed records.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: vdcstore.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 39,134
  • Lines: 77,823
  • Size: 8.44 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2023, the Indian bulk-SMS service Way2SMS (way2sms.com) allegedly had a set of user credentials exposed. Reports suggest approximately 14,700 records were affected, each containing a mobile phone number and a plaintext password. The data was distributed via public leak channels.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: way2sms.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Passwords Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 14,734
  • Lines: 15,034
  • Size: 302.68 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
in.benetton.com, the Indian arm of the Italian fashion retailer Benetton, allegedly suffered a data breach exposing records from its customer loyalty program. Reports suggest approximately 4 million loyalty records were affected, including names, mobile phone numbers, and email addresses of Indian customers. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 4,069,754
  • Lines: 4,069,757
  • Size: 268.13 MB
  • Passwords: No

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.