Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

In June 2023, Omega Elevators, an Indian elevator manufacturing and maintenance company, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident was carried out by a threat actor known as "Sumo" and disclosed on the LeakBase forum. Approximately 15,000 records were allegedly exposed, comprising employee payroll data (names and IFSC bank routing codes) and Android field-technician app logs containing device information such as device model, manufacturer, operating system version, app version, and obfuscated device identifiers (IMEI/UUID).
  • Data: Usernames Device Information
  • Records: 1,008
  • Lines: 14,354,828
  • Size: 2.85 GB
  • Passwords: ?
Sometime in 2018, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (icai.org) — India's largest professional accounting body, operating under the administrative control of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs — allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that an 8.3GB SQL file was exposed, affecting approximately 138,000 individuals. It has been reported that the compromised data included email addresses, names, usernames, plaintext passwords, phone numbers, geographic locations and physical addresses, genders, dates of registration and activity, along with payment-related and financial details such as bank account information, GSTIN and tax identifiers, government IDs, and company information.
  • Date: 2018
  • Domain: icai.org
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Bank Account Information Government IDs Genders Site Activity Tax IDs Company Information
  • Records: 7,876,516
  • Lines: 17,332,815
  • Size: 7.7 GB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2017, the Indian credit-management and credit-repair service CreditSeva (creditseva.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. CreditSeva offered consumers help improving their credit scores and negotiating bad-loan settlements with Indian banks. Reports suggest that data on more than 100,000 individuals was exposed, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, birthdates, geographic locations, job and company information, websites, and passwords stored as MD5 and PHPass hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Websites Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 272,744
  • Lines: 995,400
  • Size: 307.14 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In April 2023, the Indian furniture and appliance rental service RentoMojo (rentomojo.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that the incident exposed approximately 1.9 million individuals' records. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, geographic locations, government IDs such as Aadhaar and PAN numbers, passport numbers, order information, social profiles, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Order Information Government IDs Passports Genders Site Activity Social Profiles Birthdates
  • Records: 3,513,490
  • Lines: 253,444,496
  • Size: 31.06 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 173%
In December 2023, a threat actor identified as "Perell" announced an extortion scheme targeting Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a government-owned telecommunications provider in India. The breach allegedly exposed 2.9 million records. Among the compromised data were names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical locations, and order information.
  • Date: Dec 2023
  • Domain: bsnl.co.in
  • Threat Actor: Perell
  • Country: India
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Order Information
  • Records: 2,860,373
  • Lines: 2,860,817
  • Size: 743.43 MB
  • Passwords: Django
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2019, a shared web-hosting server associated with escortsworldschool.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the compromise exposed database backups belonging to numerous unrelated organizations hosted on the same server, predominantly Indian businesses, educational institutions, and e-commerce sites. It has been reported that approximately 64,000 unique email addresses were exposed across the bundled databases. No passwords were recovered in a usable form.
  • Data: Email Addresses
  • Records: 139,765
  • Lines: 24,832,824
  • Size: 6.85 GB
  • Passwords: No
In June 2023, the Indian insurance aggregator RenewBuy (renewbuy.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. RenewBuy is an online platform for comparing and purchasing motor, health, and life insurance policies. Reports suggest that approximately 785,000 user records were exposed. The compromised data is reported to have included email addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, physical and geographic locations, government IDs, tax IDs, partial bank account and credit card information, and passwords stored as Django PBKDF2 hashes.
  • Date: Jun 2023
  • Domain: renewbuy.com
  • Threat Actor: Sanggiero
  • Country: India
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Security Credentials Credit Card Information Bank Account Information Government IDs Genders Site Activity Tax IDs Birthdates
  • Records: 783,156
  • Size: 2.82 GB
  • Passwords: Django
  • Cracked: 7%

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.