Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime in or before 2014, the Russian parenting and family community portal 2papashi.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. The site served as a local community and classifieds portal featuring event listings, user blogs, and a directory of children's services. It has been reported that data from roughly 140 individuals was exposed, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, birthdates, IP addresses, geographic locations, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: 2014
  • Domain: 2papashi.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Birthdates
  • Records: 147
  • Lines: 39,126
  • Size: 3.17 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around November 2019, the Russian retail loyalty service Livingjoy.ru (livingjoy.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that customer records were exposed in the form of per-city user-list exports. It has been reported that approximately 30,000 individuals were affected, with exposed data including email addresses, full names, phone numbers, genders, birthdates, geographic locations, and site activity. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: Nov 2019
  • Domain: livingjoy.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 32,532
  • Lines: 6,099
  • Size: 1.76 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2020, Medmag.ru (medmag.ru), a Russian online store, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed customer database contained approximately 2,000 records. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, geographic delivery locations, usernames and an administrator password stored as an MD5 hash alongside an authentication key.
  • Date: 2020
  • Domain: medmag.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Security Credentials
  • Records: 2,110
  • Lines: 753
  • Size: 174.54 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2013, shop.dbstelecom.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. The site was an online store selling consumer electronics and digital technology, operated by DBS Telecom in Dagestan, Russia. It has been reported that the exposed data included approximately a dozen individuals' records, comprising email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, IP addresses, and passwords stored as MD5Crypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 18
  • Lines: 11,513
  • Size: 844.96 KB
  • Passwords: MD5Crypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In June 2019, a compilation titled "phdays.com" allegedly surfaced, comprising per-person dossiers that aggregate prior breach exposures of individuals associated with the Russian information-security community. Each file collates an individual's data drawn from numerous earlier breaches and combo lists. Reports suggest the compilation exposed approximately 70 individuals. The exposed data was limited to email addresses and geographic locations, with no passwords recovered.
  • Date: Jun 2019
  • Domain: phdays.com
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Compilations & Combo lists
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations
  • Records: 69
  • Lines: 1,045
  • Size: 50.31 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2018, the Russian-language drug-trade forum Legalizer.info allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data covered approximately 70,000 individuals. It has been reported that the compromised information included email addresses, usernames, hashed passwords (BCrypt, PHPass and salted SHA-256), genders, birth dates, websites, geographic locations and site activity details.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 119,388
  • Lines: 17,347,172
  • Size: 5.25 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, PHPass, SHA-256 Salted
  • Cracked: 33931%
In approximately December 2020, the Russian regional news outlet business-gazeta.ru (БИЗНЕС Online) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 159,000 individuals across the main site and its sport.business-gazeta.ru subdomain. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, full names, usernames, phone numbers, birthdates, geographic locations and passwords stored as BCrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 188,981
  • Lines: 7,090,070
  • Size: 983.85 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%

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.