Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In January 2023, the website of the Sacheon-Namhae-Hadong regional committee of South Korea's Democratic Party (sanamha.com), built on the XpressEngine CMS, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained a small set of member and site records, including approximately 3 registered members along with email addresses, usernames, real names, hashed passwords, IP addresses and site activity.
  • Date: Jan 6, 2023
  • Domain: sanamha.dothome.co
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Non-Profit & Charities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 146
  • Lines: 17,236
  • Size: 3.33 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
r5kr.com 2023

r5kr.com 2023

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In January 2023, the South Korean healthcare platform R5 Korea (r5kr.com), which provides hospital patient-communication and medical video-consultation services, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database was held for ransom, and approximately 119,000 records were compromised. The data allegedly included patient names, phone numbers, usernames, and site-activity records.
  • Date: Jan 2023
  • Domain: r5kr.com
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 168,573
  • Lines: 173,359
  • Size: 70.65 MB
  • Passwords: No
In November 2022, OrderHero (orderhero.cafe24.com), a South Korean B2B platform that lets restaurants order food ingredients and supplies from sellers, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 7,000 individuals were affected. The exposed data reportedly included names, usernames, phone numbers, geographic locations, company information, site activity, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 9,402
  • Lines: 277,395
  • Size: 102.17 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2022, the website of Namsung Traders Co., Ltd (namsungco.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Namsung Traders is a South Korean business running a Gnuboard5 corporate website with member accounts and community boards. Reports suggest the exposed database contained approximately 1,200 individuals' records, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, IP addresses, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored as MySQL hashes and other unidentified hash formats.
  • Date: Nov 2022
  • Domain: namsungco.com
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 1,787
  • Lines: 86,914
  • Size: 18.74 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL, Unknown
Sometime before 2022, the South Korean camping-car rental platform mdcar.co.kr (branded 모두의캠핑카, "MoDoo Camping Car") allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that a database from the service was exposed. The leak contained approximately 1,600 individuals' records, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored mostly in plaintext with a small number as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: mdcar.co.kr
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Travel
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 4,388
  • Lines: 13,002
  • Size: 3.66 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5
Sometime before December 2022, the South Korean online community KSUG (Korea SAP User Group), reachable at ksug.kr, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data was drawn from the site's member accounts and event registrations. Approximately 4,700 individuals were affected. The compromised information reportedly includes email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, company details, IP addresses, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored as MySQL and other hashes.
  • Date: Dec 2022
  • Domain: ksug.kr
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 24,047
  • Lines: 198,505
  • Size: 43.6 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL, Unknown
Sometime before 2022, kLauncher (klauncher.kr) allegedly suffered a data breach. kLauncher was a South Korean StarCraft: Brood War game launcher and anti-cheat utility built around a community forum. Reports suggest data on approximately 2,500 users was exposed, including email addresses, usernames, names, hashed passwords, phone numbers, IP addresses, and site activity.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: klauncher.kr
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Gaming
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 5,022
  • Lines: 260,487
  • Size: 49.79 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL, Unknown

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.