Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

Sometime around 2015, FL.ru (fl.ru), the largest freelance marketplace in Russia and the CIS, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 180,000 member records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, full names, and phone numbers. No passwords were included in this dataset.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: fl.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 180,868
  • Lines: 180,868
  • Size: 10.12 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before November 2020, the Russian website ecopages.ru allegedly suffered a data breach that surfaced as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 62,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 62,575
  • Lines: 62,575
  • Size: 3.18 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Forzajuve.ru, a Russian-language fan community dedicated to the football club Juventus F.C., allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 10,000 records were exposed, including email addresses and SHA-1 hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 10,587
  • Lines: 10,589
  • Size: 627.32 KB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2010, antichat.ru — a long-running Russian-language information-security and hacking community forum — allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that the exposed vBulletin database held roughly 41,000 forum member accounts, including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, registration and activity dates, and passwords stored as salted vBulletin MD5 hashes. Forum posts, private messages, and numerous other databases bundled in the same dump exposed approximately 360,000 email addresses in total. The most recent account activity in the data dates to June 2010.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 360,814
  • Lines: 59,850,595
  • Size: 2.72 GB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2022, the San Andreas Multiplayer (SAMP) roleplay game server hosted at sumihost.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained approximately 60 player and administrator accounts. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, plaintext passwords, IP addresses, genders, and account activity dates.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: sumihost.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Gaming
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 62
  • Lines: 5,826
  • Size: 475.24 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime around 2012, the online store hosted at lyra.deserv.net allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data belonged to a small Russian-market e-commerce site selling coffee, tea and related goods. It has been reported that approximately 30 individuals' records were compromised, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames and site activity. The majority of account passwords were stored in plaintext, alongside a small number of salted MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 51
  • Lines: 1,634
  • Size: 259.11 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5 Salted
Sometime around 2022, the Caterpillar Financial (Cat Financial) credit-application and leasing portal for the Russia/CIS market, hosted at il.catfinancial.com, allegedly suffered a data breach. Cat Financial provides financing and leasing services for Caterpillar heavy equipment. Reports suggest a Bitrix CMS database was exposed containing approximately 8,800 individuals, including email addresses, usernames, names, phone numbers, company information, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored as plaintext and salted MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 40,434
  • Lines: 5,579,299
  • Size: 691.5 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5, MD5 Salted

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.