Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2022, the Moodle e-learning platform of the Instituto Estatal de Capacitación de Guanajuato (IECA), a Mexican state-government vocational training institute, was allegedly compromised. Reports suggest a database dump from the institution's virtual campus was exposed. While the dump's main user table was stripped, approximately 200 distinct email addresses of students, instructors and staff were recoverable from log, message and activity tables. The exposed data included email addresses and geographic locations. No passwords were present.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations
  • Records: 465
  • Lines: 6,419,643
  • Size: 1.57 GB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2023, the Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud (IMJUVE), a Mexican federal government agency operating the youth platform at imjuventud.gob.mx, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data belonged to approximately 575 individuals and included email addresses, plaintext passwords, full names, geographic locations, government identification numbers (CURP), genders, birthdates, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 575
  • Lines: 579
  • Size: 121.36 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2019, Alden.mx, a Mexican automotive dealership group operating multiple car brands (Isuzu, Suzuki, Toyota, and others) through the Exer Web Solutions SaaS platform, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting five dealership databases. Reports suggest approximately 22,000 individuals were exposed, including customer records, vendor registrations, and job applications. Compromised data includes email addresses, plaintext passwords, MD5 password hashes, full names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, Mexican RFC tax IDs, relationship statuses, genders, account creation dates, and birthdates.
  • Date: 2019
  • Domain: alden.mx
  • Country: Mexico
  • Category: Automotive
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Relationship Statuses Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 70,096
  • Lines: 6,057,387
  • Size: 1.28 GB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 104%
Sometime in 2023, Mercadazo (mercadazo.com.mx), a Mexican online store, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a PrestaShop database was exposed, affecting approximately 15,000 individuals. The leaked data reportedly included email addresses, hashed passwords (BCrypt and MD5), names, phone numbers, geographic locations, genders, IP addresses, and birthdates.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 35,828
  • Lines: 2,635,483
  • Size: 242.73 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2021, Orderly (orderly.mx) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the company, a Mexican multi-tenant SaaS platform for accounting, electronic invoicing (CFDI), expense tracking and payroll services aimed at small and medium businesses, had approximately 1,900 individual records exposed. The compromised data includes email addresses, BCrypt-hashed passwords, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, government identifiers (RFC, CURP, NSS), site activity timestamps, and company information.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: orderly.mx
  • Country: Mexico
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Government IDs Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 9,387
  • Lines: 3,471,627
  • Size: 1.01 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2022, the e-commerce platform Tucocina.mx, a Mexican online store specializing in commercial kitchen equipment and accessories, allegedly suffered a data breach. Approximately 964 user records were exposed in the incident. Some of the leaked data includes names, email addresses, geographic locations, and site activity.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: tucocina.mx
  • Country: Mexico
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Names Site Activity
  • Records: 964
  • Lines: 965
  • Size: 77.51 KB
  • Passwords: No
In 2020, a database leak from Citibanamex, a major bank in Mexico, exposed 2,627,933 records. The compromised data is believed to be associated with Citibanamex bank accounts and reportedly includes information from various regions within Mexico. Among the leaked data were names, phone numbers, birthdates, physical locations, job information, and genders.
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Birthdates Physical Locations Job Information Genders
  • Records: 2,627,933
  • Lines: 2,627,933
  • Size: 721.69 MB
  • 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.