Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2020, the Russian civic-transparency website elections.istra-da.ru allegedly had its dataset exposed. The site aggregates publicly available information on candidates in Russian regional and municipal elections, compiled from official state election-commission registries. Reports suggest approximately 1 million records were exposed, including full names, dates of birth, places of residence, education levels, employers, and job positions. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Names Geographic Locations Job Information Company Information Birthdates Education
  • Records: 1,020,001
  • Lines: 1,020,002
  • Size: 1.12 GB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2015, the Russian freelance marketplace Freelance.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Freelance.ru is one of the largest Russian-language freelance marketplaces, connecting freelancers with clients. Reports suggest approximately 180,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, full names, and phone numbers. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: freelance.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Usernames
  • Records: 180,868
  • Lines: 180,869
  • Size: 11.87 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2020, the Russian online appliance and electronics store Электробыт (bt-system.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. The data later surfaced as part of the Cit0day breach collection. It has been reported that approximately 24,000 customer records were exposed, including email addresses, names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 24,271
  • Size: 3.21 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2014, the Russian online car-classifieds marketplace Auto.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that a scraped dataset of approximately 517,000 vehicle listings was exposed, including the names, phone numbers, and city locations of the sellers who posted them. The records contained no email addresses or passwords.
  • Date: 2014
  • Domain: auto.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Automotive
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 517,622
  • Lines: 517,623
  • Size: 130.3 MB
  • Passwords: ?
Around the end of March 2019, the Russian airline UTair allegedly suffered a data breach sourced from an exposed MongoDB database. Reports suggest the data of approximately 520,000 passengers was compromised, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, passport numbers and physical addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Birthdates
  • Records: 530,090
  • Lines: 31,883,626
  • Size: 688.22 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2022, Dobro.ru, a Russian online platform focused on charity and volunteerism, experienced a data breach that exposed 648,693 user records. The compromised data, shared in a CSV format with a file size of 131MB, included email addresses, hashed passwords, names, phone numbers, birthdates, and physical locations.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: dobro.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Non-Profit & Charities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 648,693
  • Lines: 656,491
  • Size: 131.87 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2020, the Russian online employment and resume-posting service EmploymentCenter.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed dataset contained approximately 73,000 job seekers. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, marital statuses, cities, salary expectations and resume biographical text.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Marital Statuses Genders Birthdates Bios
  • Records: 78,625
  • Lines: 78,646
  • Size: 42.16 MB
  • Passwords: ?

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.