Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2022, the South Korean community website Amici (amicijs.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. The site was built on the XpressEngine CMS and hosted a member community with comments and board posts. Reports suggest that approximately 460 individuals were affected. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, full names, dates of birth, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: bcamici.com
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Usernames Birthdates
  • Records: 1,337
  • Lines: 422,888
  • Size: 30.95 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2023, the South Korean online auto-parts retailer Auto Partsner (auto-partsner.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained records on approximately 30,000 customers across roughly 222,500 total records, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, physical addresses, company information and IP addresses. It has been reported that account passwords were stored as a mix of plaintext and MySQL password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Company Information
  • Records: 222,513
  • Lines: 3,880,633
  • Size: 1023.58 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MySQL
In January 2023, the South Korean optical and measurement instrument distributor Ajo Trade (ajotrade.co.kr), which operated a Gnuboard-based company website, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained records for nearly 500 individuals, including email addresses, usernames, names, MySQL password hashes, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth, genders, and physical addresses.
  • Date: Jan 9, 2023
  • Domain: ajotrade.co.kr
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Industry
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Birthdates
  • Records: 557
  • Lines: 78,608
  • Size: 19.48 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2022, the website abestquick.dothome.co.kr, a small WordPress site hosted on the South Korean dothome.co.kr platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data was limited to a single administrator account, including an email address, a username, and a PHPass-hashed password.
  • Data: Email Addresses Usernames Websites
  • Records: 1
  • Lines: 3,710
  • Size: 20.95 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2008, the South Korean online marketplace eSell Market (esellmarket.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. The data later resurfaced as part of the Cit0day breach collection that was made available on hacking forums in November 2020. Reports suggest approximately 24,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Date: 2008
  • Domain: esellmarket.com
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 23,928
  • Lines: 23,931
  • Size: 639.34 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime before 2016, the development server of nownnow (dev.nownnow.com), a South Korean web and video conferencing platform operated by Elimnet, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that a database dump exposing approximately 18,000 individuals was leaked. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, usernames, names, phone numbers, genders, geographic locations, company information, site activity, and passwords stored both in plaintext and as MySQL password hashes.
  • Date: 2016
  • Domain: dev.nownnow.com
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Social Media & Communication
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 89,134
  • Lines: 134,591
  • Size: 52.13 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL, Plaintext
Sometime before July 2016, the South Korean web and video conferencing service NownNow (nownnow.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 89,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, names, plaintext passwords, MySQL password hashes, phone numbers, geographic locations, genders, and company information.
  • Date: Jul 2016
  • Domain: nownnow.com
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Social Media & Communication
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 89,068
  • Lines: 134,591
  • Size: 52.13 MB
  • Passwords: MySQL
  • Cracked: 9%

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.