Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In August 2016, the Russian gaming community site Rift-Online.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. The site operated an Invision Power Board forum and a DataLife Engine CMS for the MMORPG Rift. Reports suggest approximately 2,000 user accounts were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, geographic locations, site activity data, social profiles, and passwords stored as MD5 and MyBB hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles
  • Records: 3,861
  • Lines: 4,000
  • Size: 1.51 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, MyBB, Unknown
In August 2012, the Russian VDS hosting provider FirstVDS allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 126,000 users were affected. The compromised data included email addresses, usernames, full names, physical addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, order information, and passwords stored as md5crypt and bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Bank Account Information Order Information Government IDs Site Activity Websites Company Information Fax Numbers Birthdates Languages
  • Records: 263,924
  • Lines: 862,609
  • Size: 469.95 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5, MD5Crypt
  • Cracked: 32%
In 2017, Oneland.su, a Russian Minecraft gaming community operating on DLE CMS, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 341,000 user records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, password hashes, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 341,275
  • Lines: 341,394
  • Size: 143.67 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, Unknown
In April 2018, the Russian-language forum Monsterhack (monsterhack.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. Monsterhack was a XenForo-based community focused on hacking and game cheats. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 6,400 user records, including email addresses, usernames, genders, geographic locations, site activity and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity
  • Records: 6,445
  • Lines: 102,359
  • Size: 9.18 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 19781%
In 2013, Vendetta-Chaos (vendetta-chaos.ru), a Russian private server community for the MMORPG Cabal Online, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 71 user accounts were exposed, including usernames, email addresses, plaintext passwords, SHA-256 password hashes, IP addresses, and geographic locations.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 71
  • Lines: 634,630
  • Size: 105.66 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, SHA-256
Sometime before 2015, the Russian Minecraft server network and gaming community Kaboom.su (kaboom.su) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data covered approximately 102,000 individuals. It has been reported that the compromised information included email addresses, usernames, real names, IP addresses, site activity and social profile details, along with passwords stored as MyBB (Invision Power Board) salted hashes and unrecognised MD5-derived hashes.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: kaboom.su
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Gaming
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles
  • Records: 357,524
  • Lines: 3,969,101
  • Size: 675.96 MB
  • Passwords: MyBB, Unknown
In January 2013, the Russian web hosting provider NTHOST (nthost.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. NTHOST offered virtual hosting and VPS services, running a WHMCS billing system alongside Joomla and Bitrix installations. It has been reported that database dumps from these systems were exposed, affecting roughly 30 individuals. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, geographic locations, IP addresses, company information, and passwords stored as MD5 and salted MD5 hashes.
  • Date: Jan 2013
  • Domain: nthost.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Company Information Languages
  • Records: 2,963
  • Lines: 105,035
  • Size: 11.42 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 47351%

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.