Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2025, the Indian fractional real-estate investment platform AltDRX (altdrx.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a full database dump was published on a hacking forum, exposing approximately 45,000 individuals. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, geographic locations, and account activity details. No passwords were included in the exposed investor records.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: altdrx.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 59,753
  • Lines: 887,532
  • Size: 269.09 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2022, the Indian e-commerce and chess-academy website Alpha Luxe (alphaluxe.in) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed dataset was published on a hacking forum and contained approximately 12 individuals' records. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, birthdates, geographic locations, plaintext passwords and site activity details.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: alphaluxe.in
  • Threat Actor: MERDAX
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 16
  • Lines: 27
  • Size: 1.68 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2023, IQIP India (iqip.in), an Indian government administrative platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed user database contained approximately 760 records belonging to national and state-level administrative users, including full names, email addresses, and bcrypt-hashed passwords. The data was later distributed publicly on a hacking forum.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: iqip.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 759
  • Lines: 759
  • Size: 143.85 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2026, AHA Solar (accessed via demo.ahasolar.in) allegedly suffered a data breach. AHA Solar is an Indian rooftop-solar company whose installation and application-management platform is developed by Yugtia Technologies. Reports suggest the exposed data spans activity from roughly 2015 to 2022 and includes approximately 4,000 individuals, with email addresses, SHA-1 hashed passwords, names, phone numbers, physical addresses and related company information.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Company Information
  • Records: 7,459
  • Lines: 1,001,667
  • Size: 818.71 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
In September 2026, the Indian B2B agricultural-trade marketplace Bijak (operated by Krishiacharya Technologies Private Limited) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data spans 2019 to 2026 and covers approximately 308,000 user profiles. The compromised records reportedly include phone numbers, names, business names, IP addresses, device and carrier details, and geographic locations (city, region and market), with a small number of email addresses.
  • Date: Sep 2026
  • Domain: bijak.in
  • Threat Actor: BoneT4p
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information Languages
  • Records: 308,810
  • Lines: 308,810
  • Size: 216.38 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before September 2024, the ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management (IIWM), a government agricultural research institute in Bhubaneswar, India, allegedly suffered a data breach of its website database. Reports suggest the exposed data covered roughly 90 individuals, primarily institute staff. It has been reported that the compromised data included email addresses, names and phone numbers, along with administrative account credentials stored as MD5 hashes. The dataset also contained significant automated vulnerability-scanner test noise.
  • Date: Sep 2024
  • Domain: iiwm.res.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers
  • Records: 261
  • Lines: 1,770
  • Size: 763.76 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before September 2024, Sree Chaitanya Mahavidyalaya, an Indian college (sreechaitanyamahavidyalaya.ac.in), allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the data was obtained via SQL injection and published on a hacking forum. The breach allegedly exposed approximately 2,400 individuals, with the compromised data including names, genders, and email addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Genders
  • Records: 2,581
  • Lines: 2,583
  • Size: 164.08 KB
  • 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.