Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2016, the Russian Lineage 2 private game server C4x1 (c4x1.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. C4x1 operated a game server alongside an Invision Power Board community forum at forum.c4x1.ru. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 1,300 individuals' records, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored as MD5 and MyBB (salted MD5) hashes.
  • Date: 2016
  • Domain: c4x1.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Gaming
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 4,822
  • Lines: 38,885
  • Size: 13.82 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, MyBB
  • Cracked: 17434%
In 2022, voentorgspb.ru, a Russian online military goods store based in Saint Petersburg selling uniforms, equipment, and military accessories, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 45,000 user accounts were exposed, including email addresses, salted MD5 password hashes, usernames, full names, phone numbers, geographic locations, and birthdates.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 71,320
  • Lines: 19,457
  • Size: 516.29 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2014, Name-hack.ru, a Russian-language gaming and game-hacking forum, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 177,000 user records, including email addresses, usernames, vBulletin password hashes with salts, IP addresses, birthdates, geographic locations, social profiles, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 203,964
  • Lines: 132,951
  • Size: 56.82 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2018, berkem.ru, a Russian furniture and hardware fittings retailer, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 325 individuals were affected, with exposed data including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, passwords (PHPass hashes), geographic locations, and site activity.
  • Date: 2018
  • Domain: berkem.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 445
  • Lines: 56,353
  • Size: 136.11 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime in 2013, mixlip.ru, a Russian webmaster and script-sharing community running on the DataLife Engine CMS, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 600 user accounts were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, full names, password hashes, geographic locations, social profile identifiers, and site activity data.
  • Date: 2013
  • Domain: mixlip.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Social Profiles
  • Records: 631
  • Lines: 8,114
  • Size: 2.19 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
In 2016, the Russian gaming-cheat forum Multi-cheats.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Multi-cheats.com was a Russian-language community focused on cheats and hacks for online games such as Tanki Online. Reports suggest approximately 776,000 records were exposed, primarily email addresses harvested from forum posts, private messages, and credential lists shared by members.
  • Data: Email Addresses
  • Records: 983,500
  • Lines: 1,406,875
  • Size: 1 GB
  • Passwords: No
In 2019, Minecraft-Monitor.ru, a Russian Minecraft server monitoring and listing platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 15,000 records, with data including email addresses, geographic locations, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 40,061
  • Lines: 2,042,238
  • Size: 101.56 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.