Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), an Indian online education platform run by the IITs and IISc at nptel.ac.in, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 27,000 user records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 27,669
  • Lines: 27,699
  • Size: 944.82 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime before November 2020, Pindout (pindout.com), an Indian local-deals and business-directory platform operated by Pindout Software Private Limited of Chennai, allegedly suffered a data breach that was later distributed as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 3,400 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Date: Nov 2020
  • Domain: pindout.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 3,430
  • Lines: 3,431
  • Size: 114.03 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In November 2020, knowyourcollege-gov.in, the Indian government's Know Your College (KYC) portal maintained by AICTE, allegedly suffered a data breach as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 150,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 226,905
  • Lines: 226,922
  • Size: 9.36 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Make Me Genius (makemegenius.com), an educational website offering free science videos and learning content for children, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 160 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 169
  • Lines: 170
  • Size: 5.37 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In November 2020, MD Computers (mdcomputers.in) allegedly suffered a data breach as part of the Cit0day breach collection. MD Computers is an Indian online retailer of computer hardware and electronics. It has been reported that approximately 17,000 individuals were affected. The exposed data included email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 and SHA-1 hashes.
  • Date: Nov 4, 2020
  • Domain: mdcomputers.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 16,838
  • Lines: 16,840
  • Size: 1.04 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
At an unspecified date, the Indian organic wellness retailer Organic India (organicindia.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,700 records were exposed, including email addresses and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 1,792
  • Lines: 1,824
  • Size: 144.36 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2020, ndpublisher.in, the website of New Delhi Publishers (an Indian peer-reviewed scholarly journal and academic book publisher), allegedly suffered a data breach that surfaced as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 3,400 records were exposed, including email addresses and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 3,406
  • Lines: 3,406
  • Size: 191.15 KB
  • Passwords: 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.