Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Forexelate.com — an Italian online forex-trading community forum — allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 40 forum user records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and bcrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 40
  • Lines: 40
  • Size: 5.51 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In June 2022, the Italian consumer-credit and personal-loans company Prestiter (prestiter.it) allegedly suffered a data breach, with a full multi-database dump of roughly 23 GB later distributed on underground forums. Reports suggest the exposed CRM and loan-application data covered approximately 770,000 individuals. The compromised records allegedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, physical and geographic locations, genders, IP addresses, Italian tax identification codes, salary figures, employment and job information, and dates of birth.
  • Date: Jun 13, 2022
  • Domain: prestiter.it
  • Threat Actor: Chucky
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Genders IP Addresses Tax IDs Salaries Job Information Birthdates Geographic Locations
  • Records: 767,764
  • Lines: 70,139,984
  • Size: 16.64 GB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime around 2021, onlysvapo.it, an Italian online vape / e-cigarette store, allegedly had its PrestaShop database exposed. Reports suggest a small number of records — roughly 30 individuals — were affected, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, geographic locations, and bcrypt-hashed passwords. Much of the customer table had already been anonymized by the store's GDPR module.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: onlysvapo.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 53
  • Lines: 103,201
  • Size: 5.67 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In October 2022, the Italian boating community forum Liveboat (liveboat.it) allegedly suffered a data breach. Liveboat is an Italian online community and discussion forum dedicated to boating and nautical topics, built on vBulletin. It has been reported that a full database dump was leaked, exposing roughly 98,000 email addresses (including a large volume of rejected bot-registration addresses logged by the forum's anti-spam plugin) and around 10,600 registered forum members. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, vBulletin-hashed passwords with salts, and account activity dates.
  • Date: Oct 5, 2022
  • Domain: liveboat.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 99,849
  • Lines: 3,522,376
  • Size: 656.81 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime in or before 2022, an Italian web-hosting server operating under guardiacivica.it (also hosting the local directory and tourism portal dimmidove.com and related sites) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 3,600 individual records drawn from user accounts, mailing lists, business and hospitality listings, and webmail systems, with much of the underlying data dating to 2009-2016. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, and passwords stored as plaintext and MD5-crypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 12,752
  • Lines: 729,530
  • Size: 198.44 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5Crypt
In September 2022, the Italian judicial-auction platform Aste Giustizia (astegiustizia.it) allegedly suffered a data breach. The site is an online marketplace for court-ordered and foreclosed goods (real estate, vehicles, and other assets sold through Italian courts). It has been reported that records for approximately 1,600 registered users and buyers were exposed. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, bcrypt-hashed passwords, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, Italian tax identification numbers (codice fiscale), genders, birthdates, and account activity dates.
  • Date: Sep 28, 2022
  • Domain: astegiustizia.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 16,504
  • Lines: 354,380
  • Size: 468.01 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before late 2022, Blasio Immobiliare (blasioimmobiliare.it), an Italian real-estate agency, allegedly suffered a data breach of its property-management CRM (Banca delle Case). Reports suggest data for approximately 79,000 individuals was exposed, including email addresses, usernames, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 92,556
  • Lines: 378,894
  • Size: 76.59 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.