Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2026, Ganadipathy Tulsi's Jain Engineering College (GTEC, gtec.ac.in) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest GTEC is an engineering and management college in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. It has been reported that data scraped from the institution's published documents was exposed, covering roughly 1,000 individuals and including student names and registration numbers along with staff email addresses and phone numbers.
  • Date: 2026
  • Domain: gtec.ac.in
  • Threat Actor: SiberSLX
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Financial Information Government IDs Education
  • Records: 1,127
  • Lines: 103,923
  • Size: 2.31 MB
  • Passwords: No
In June 2026, RentoClick.com (also operating as renterneeds.com), an Indian online marketplace for renting photography and videography equipment in the Delhi NCR region, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the platform's full database was exported and released publicly. It has been reported that the records of approximately 30,000 customers and vendors were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, order and contact-enquiry details, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: Jun 2026
  • Domain: rentoclick.com
  • Threat Actor: Robert2025
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 41,796
  • Lines: 77,494
  • Size: 17.38 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In August 2025, the website Synergy Institute (synergyinstitute.net) allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that the incident exposed a small user database of approximately 76 records. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, usernames, full names, and plaintext passwords.
  • Date: Aug 16, 2025
  • Domain: synergyinstitute.net
  • Threat Actor: Darkness./x404
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames
  • Records: 76
  • Lines: 304
  • Size: 7.86 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In August 2023, a database belonging to VuLiv (vuliv.com), an Indian media/entertainment Android app (VuLiv Player, associated with MojoBoxx inflight advertising), was allegedly leaked. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 686,000 users. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, mobile phone numbers, telecom carrier and circle, full names, dates of birth, genders, physical addresses, government identifiers (Aadhaar) for a subset of records, and BCrypt-hashed passwords for internal accounts.
  • Date: Aug 17, 2023
  • Domain: vuliv.com
  • Threat Actor: Chucky
  • Country: India
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 1,472,211
  • Lines: 31,774,117
  • Size: 5.22 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In October 2023, the Training and Placement Cell portal (tnpgndec.com) of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College (GNDEC), a public engineering college in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that a database dump covering roughly 45,000 records relating to several thousand students was exposed. The exposed data allegedly included names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, home addresses, family members' names, government identification numbers (Aadhaar), academic records and account credentials stored as bcrypt password hashes.
  • Date: Oct 31, 2023
  • Domain: tnpgndec.com
  • Threat Actor: Tanaka
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Family Members Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 19,594
  • Lines: 45,687
  • Size: 13.04 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2023, GetMyUni (getmyuni.com), an Indian college and course discovery portal, allegedly had a subset of its user data exposed. Reports suggest this dataset, tied to the schoolbook.getmyuni.com subdomain, contained approximately 28,000 records consisting of email addresses paired with passwords stored as SHA-512 and MySQL hashes, alongside a small number of plaintext passwords.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: getmyuni.com
  • Threat Actor: Chucky
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Education
  • Records: 28,766
  • Lines: 28,766
  • Size: 4.17 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL, SHA-512, Plaintext
Sometime before 2024, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College (NSCB Medical College) in Jabalpur, India, allegedly suffered a data breach via SQL injection of its website database. NSCB Medical College is a government medical college in Madhya Pradesh, India. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 460 records belonging to faculty, department heads, and administrative staff, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, job titles, and department information, along with a small number of administrative account credentials.
  • Date: 2024
  • Domain: nscbmc.ac.in
  • Threat Actor: kadez-406
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Job Information
  • Records: 461
  • Lines: 2,059
  • Size: 266.21 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 100%

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.