Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In December 2022, Forbes Marshall (forbesmarshall.com), an Indian engineering company specialising in steam engineering and industrial process control, allegedly suffered a data breach of its internal project-management database. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 2,300 unique email addresses belonging to employees and industrial-client contacts, along with names, usernames, phone numbers, job titles, internal project communications, and passwords stored mostly as MD5 hashes with a small number in plaintext.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Job Information
  • Records: 457,912
  • Lines: 405,765
  • Size: 345.63 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, Plaintext
In 2022, firstalert.in allegedly suffered a data breach. FirstAlert is an Indian WordPress-based website publishing civil engineering, educational, and general-interest blog content. Reports suggest approximately 2,800 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, PHPass-hashed passwords, IP addresses, geographic locations, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 2,809
  • Lines: 54,669
  • Size: 11.33 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2022, the Indian e-learning platform fast.apdue.com (operated as prayasvyaktitva Academy) allegedly suffered a data breach. The platform provides online psychometric aptitude tests and coaching for students. Reports suggest the exposed data covered approximately 20 individuals and included email addresses, names, phone numbers, genders, geographic locations, usernames, employment information, and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Job Information
  • Records: 23
  • Lines: 5,671
  • Size: 1.01 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2023, FantasyBox (fantasybox.in) allegedly suffered a data breach. FantasyBox was an Indian fantasy sports platform where users joined paid cricket and football contests, maintained wallet balances, and completed KYC to withdraw winnings. Reports suggest data on approximately 1,800 individuals was exposed, including email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, bcrypt-hashed and plaintext passwords, dates of birth, genders, and geographic locations, along with bank account details, tax IDs (PAN) and other government identifiers for users who submitted withdrawal KYC.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Bank Account Information Government IDs Genders Site Activity Tax IDs Birthdates
  • Records: 3,605
  • Lines: 174,211
  • Size: 20.39 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, BCrypt
In December 2022, the Indian event-management and cashless-payment platform EventBot (eventbot.in) allegedly suffered a data breach. EventBot provides RFID card, QR code, and UPI-based cashless payment systems for events, festivals, and stalls. Reports suggest a database was subsequently leaked online, exposing approximately 472 thousand records. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, usernames, and passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes alongside some plaintext values.
  • Date: Dec 2022
  • Domain: eventbot.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: Streaming & Entertainment
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Usernames
  • Records: 472,522
  • Lines: 1,752,589
  • Size: 429.7 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1, Plaintext
Sometime before 2023, everydayon.com, a multi-tenant school and hospital management software platform used by institutions in India, allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that a database dump exposing records of students, patients, faculty and staff was made available. Reports suggest approximately 23,000 individuals were affected, with exposed data including names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth, physical addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as plaintext and bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Birthdates Education
  • Records: 24,712
  • Lines: 781,694
  • Size: 108.19 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, BCrypt
Sometime before June 2022, the Indian holiday and travel-booking website exploreholidays.in allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained approximately 12,000 records, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, company and bank account details, and passwords stored as BCrypt and salted SHA-1 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Usernames Bank Account Information Company Information
  • Records: 12,292
  • Lines: 40,777
  • Size: 15.98 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, SHA-1 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.