Breach Intelligence

6,872

Total breached databases

Sometime in late 2018, the Indian fashion e-commerce store Zenspun allegedly suffered a data breach. The dump, taken from a Magento 2 backend, reports suggest exposed records for fewer than 100 individuals, including email addresses, names, salted SHA-256 password hashes, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, genders, site activity, and birthdates.
  • Date: Nov 22, 2018
  • Domain: surveymonkey.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 1,081
  • Lines: 301,031
  • Size: 14.56 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-256 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2017, BGR India (bgr.in), the Indian edition of the Boy Genius Report technology news website, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed data belonging to approximately 10,000 users, including email addresses, usernames, names, geographic locations, websites, and hashed passwords (PHPass).
  • Date: 2017
  • Domain: bgr.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: News & Media
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 24,930
  • Lines: 406,664
  • Size: 1.66 GB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In January 2018, the Indian multi-vendor e-commerce marketplace BigBuys (bigbuys.in) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest BigBuys was a CScart-powered storefront hosting vendor companies and customer accounts with order and wallet functionality. It has been reported that approximately 3,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, salted MD5 passwords, names, usernames, phone numbers, geographic locations, bank account information, websites, company information, birthdates, and site activity data.
  • Date: Jan 4, 2018
  • Domain: bigbuys.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Bank Account Information Site Activity Websites Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 3,593
  • Lines: 5,244
  • Size: 1.49 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2012, Desihacker.net, an Indian-themed ethical-hacking community forum running on MyBB, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 11,000 individuals were affected. The exposed data is reported to include email addresses, usernames, salted MyBB password hashes, IP addresses, websites, birth dates, languages, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Websites Birthdates Languages
  • Records: 11,088
  • Lines: 45,385
  • Size: 28.46 MB
  • Passwords: MyBB
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before October 2014, Mergersindia.com, an Indian website focused on corporate mergers, acquisitions, and amalgamation services, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 2,400 individuals had their information exposed, including email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, phone numbers, company information, geographic locations, usernames, IP addresses, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 6,481
  • Lines: 45,532
  • Size: 178.17 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime in or before 2014, the Indian e-commerce site Revuv.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the leaked dataset, taken from a Magento store, exposed approximately 10 individuals' records, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, salted MD5 password hashes, site activity timestamps and company information.
  • Date: 2014
  • Domain: revuv.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 130
  • Lines: 411,849
  • Size: 38.92 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In December 2015, Websancharindia.com, an Indian web hosting reseller, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 7,000 individuals were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, IP addresses, company information, and salted MD5 password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 147,597
  • Lines: 382,397
  • Size: 399.38 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5, MD5 Salted, PHPass
  • 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.