Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

Sometime before December 2018, a database of records from Russia's Federal Customs Service (customs.ru) was allegedly leaked and circulated on hacking forums. Reports suggest the dump contained approximately 22.8 million customs declaration records covering goods that passed through Russian customs as imports and exports. The exposed data reportedly included importer and exporter company names, addresses and tax identification numbers (INN), the names of the customs declaration filers, country-of-origin and destination information, and detailed shipment data such as item descriptions, quantities, weights and declared values.
  • Date: 2011
  • Domain: customs.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Physical Locations Geographic Locations Tax IDs Company Information Shipment Information
  • Records: 22,839,008
  • Lines: 22,839,010
  • Size: 17.9 GB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime in or before 2021, the website of Promtek-2000 (promtek2000.ru), a Russian manufacturer of fire-resistant and security doors based in Yekaterinburg, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data came from the site's content-management system and affected approximately 11 individuals, with email addresses, names, usernames, and an administrator password stored as an unsalted MD5 hash.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: promtek2000.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Passwords Names Usernames EmailAddresses
  • Records: 281
  • Lines: 15,979
  • Size: 11.1 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2020, bazar2000.ru — a Russian business publication known as "Клуб Директоров" (Club of Directors) — allegedly suffered a data breach as part of the Cit0day breach collection. Reports suggest approximately 4,600 records were exposed, including email addresses and passwords stored as a mix of MD5 hashes and cracked plaintext values.
  • Date: Nov 2020
  • Domain: bazar2000.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: News & Media
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 4,889
  • Lines: 4,889
  • Size: 229.37 KB
  • Passwords: MD5, Plaintext
Sometime before 2022, VK Pay, the integrated payment service of the Russian social network VKontakte (VK), allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that approximately 160,000 records were exposed. The exposed data allegedly included phone numbers and full names. No passwords were included in the leaked data.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: vk.pay
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Social Media & Communication
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers
  • Records: 164,111
  • Lines: 164,111
  • Size: 6.32 MB
  • Passwords: ?
Sometime before 2018, the Russian Minecraft game server SimpleMinecraft.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 326,000 player account records were exposed, including usernames and plaintext passwords, along with a small number of email addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 326,047
  • Lines: 326,594
  • Size: 6.61 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In June 2024, the Russian supermarket chain Magnolia (mgnl.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. Magnolia is a Russian grocery retailer operating an online store. Reports suggest that data on approximately 255,000 individuals was exposed. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, physical locations, and passwords stored as salted MD5 and salted SHA-512 hashes.
  • Date: Jun 9, 2024
  • Domain: mgnl.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Food
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Usernames
  • Records: 326,691
  • Lines: 2,963,893
  • Size: 527.59 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted, SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2007, MegaFon, one of Russia's largest mobile network operators, allegedly suffered a data breach involving a regional subscriber registry. Reports suggest approximately 100,000 records were exposed, including subscriber phone numbers, full names and company names, passport details, and physical addresses. No passwords were included in the dataset.
  • Date: 2007
  • Domain: megafon.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Passports
  • Records: 104,891
  • Lines: 104,892
  • Size: 14.59 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.