Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In January 2023, the Italian email-hosting provider ePublic (mail.epublic.it) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the mail-server database was exposed, affecting approximately 40,000 individuals, with the hosted mailboxes belonging predominantly to Italian municipalities and public-administration bodies. The exposed data reportedly included email addresses, usernames, full names, MD5-hashed mailbox passwords, address-book contacts, organizations, languages and account activity timestamps.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information Languages
  • Records: 139,837
  • Lines: 136,028
  • Size: 29.12 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In October 2022, the Italian online store 1businessplan.it, which sells business-plan software and templates, allegedly suffered a data breach exposing its PrestaShop database. Reports suggest approximately 800 customer records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, postal addresses, birthdates, genders, IP addresses and MD5/bcrypt password hashes.
  • Date: Oct 25, 2022
  • Domain: 1businessplan.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 1,119
  • Lines: 179,454
  • Size: 25.37 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2022, the Italian real estate agency Studio Brianteo (studiobrianteo.it), based in the Brianza area, allegedly suffered a data breach of its property-management database. Reports suggest that data belonging to approximately 2,800 clients and contacts was exposed. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and — for agency staff accounts — usernames and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 16,327
  • Lines: 267,110
  • Size: 26.81 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
tshirtmakers.it, an Italian custom-apparel and t-shirt printing retailer, allegedly suffered a data breach dated March 2023. Reports suggest approximately 9,600 customers were affected, with the exposed data including names, email addresses, company names, and Italian tax identifiers (Partita IVA / codice fiscale). No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: Mar 20, 2023
  • Domain: tshirtmakers.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Government IDs Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 10,868
  • Lines: 10,869
  • Size: 1.23 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime around November 2021, futurity.it allegedly suffered a data breach exposing a newsletter subscriber database. Reports suggest the data contained approximately 2,600 records, including email addresses, names, IP addresses, and subscription activity dates. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: Nov 20, 2021
  • Domain: futurity.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 2,638
  • Lines: 2,639
  • Size: 500.14 KB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2020, the Italian online store printercartucce.it allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed customer export contained approximately 1,700 records, including email addresses, full names, genders and site activity dates. No passwords were included in the data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity
  • Records: 1,725
  • Lines: 1,725
  • Size: 187.8 KB
  • Passwords: No
In February 2023, the Italian fashion retailer Penelope Napoli (penelopenapoli.it) allegedly suffered a data breach of its customer database. Reports suggest that approximately 1,500 individuals were exposed, including email addresses, names, salutations (gender) and registration dates. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity
  • Records: 2,067
  • Lines: 2,068
  • Size: 181.5 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.