Breach Intelligence

6,873

Total breached databases

Sometime before November 2020, the Italian discussion forum forum-macchine.it allegedly suffered a data breach that was later distributed as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 58,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, vBulletin password hashes with salts, and BCrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 58,583
  • Lines: 58,583
  • Size: 6.54 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2017, the Italian nautical publisher Frangente (frangente.it), known for its sailing and boating books and guides, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the data later surfaced as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Approximately 5,800 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Date: Nov 2017
  • Domain: frangente.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Literature
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 5,836
  • Lines: 5,838
  • Size: 187.28 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
The Italian-language community forum of Advanced Mind Institute (forum-it.advanced-mind-institute.org), a service offering neuroacoustic meditation programs, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 945 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and BCrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 946
  • Lines: 946
  • Size: 131.59 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
The website createst.altervista.org, a site hosted on the Italian free web-hosting platform AlterVista, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 4,600 records were exposed, including email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The exposed accounts belong overwhelmingly to Italian users.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 5,324
  • Lines: 5,325
  • Size: 295.67 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2020, DATRE (datre.net) allegedly suffered a data breach. DATRE is an Italian continuing-medical-education (ECM) e-learning platform for healthcare professionals. Reports suggest approximately 19,000 individuals were exposed, including email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: 2020
  • Domain: datre.net
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 20,617
  • Lines: 20,617
  • Size: 977.17 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2020, boccaccio.it, the website of the Italian nightclub Boccaccio Club, allegedly suffered a data breach as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 11,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 11,290
  • Lines: 11,291
  • Size: 348.25 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In November 2020, asianworld.it allegedly suffered a data breach as part of the Cit0day collection, a set of more than 23,000 breached websites made available on hacking forums. Reports suggest approximately 33,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 36,455
  • Lines: 37,194
  • Size: 1.97 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • 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.