Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before May 2020, Vitaminov.net allegedly suffered a data breach. Vitaminov.net is a Russian-language health and nutrition information website covering vitamins, supplements, and wellness topics. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 300 individuals' data, including email addresses, usernames, names, geographic locations, and PHPass-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 441
  • Lines: 60,949
  • Size: 162.06 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2021, the Russian online and brick-and-mortar airsoft equipment retailer Strikeplanet.ru (Планета страйкбола), which operates physical stores in cities including Moscow, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Samara, Tyumen and Kazan, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 50,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, geographic locations, genders, birthdates, websites, site activity, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes (both bare and salted).
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 55,899
  • Lines: 706,369
  • Size: 83.59 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In February 2012, Sm-okna.ru, a Russian PVC-window installation company website, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 8,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, IP addresses, site activity, company information, and passwords stored in plaintext and as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: Feb 22, 2012
  • Domain: sm-okna.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Business
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 10,711
  • Lines: 9,416
  • Size: 1.86 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 64075%
Sometime around 2014, the Russian-language gaming community forum Lifes-Hack (lifes-hack.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the site was a vBulletin-based forum dedicated to game cheats, patches, and related discussion. Approximately 600 individuals were exposed, with compromised data including email addresses, usernames, salted vBulletin password hashes, IP addresses, social profiles, and forum activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites
  • Records: 1,208
  • Lines: 46,907
  • Size: 47.57 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2016, Forine.org, a Russian Minecraft game server network, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1 million player accounts were exposed, including usernames, hashed passwords (MD5 and salted SHA-256), IP addresses, and a small number of email addresses.
  • Date: 2016
  • Domain: forine.org
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Gaming
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 1,060,990
  • Lines: 1,826,730
  • Size: 379.36 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, SHA-256 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In January 2016, the Russian SEO and webmaster community website Seocola.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Seocola.ru is a Russian-language forum and content portal built on the DataLife Engine (DLE) CMS, aimed at SEO professionals and webmasters. Reports suggest that approximately 1,100 records were exposed, including email addresses, hashed passwords, usernames, real names, IP addresses, geographic locations, social profiles, websites, and site activity.
  • Date: Jan 2016
  • Domain: seocola.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites
  • Records: 1,635
  • Lines: 13,322
  • Size: 6.65 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
Sometime in or before late 2014, taxicq.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the records of approximately six individuals were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, names, MD5-hashed passwords, phone numbers, IP addresses, geographic locations, and site-activity timestamps.
  • Date: 2014
  • Domain: taxicq.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Logistics & Transportation
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 11
  • Lines: 110
  • Size: 15.68 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • 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.