Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In July 2006, the Russian television channel TV Center (TVC) allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its website tvc.ru. Reports suggest the leaked dataset, a snapshot of the site's content management system and Phorum-based discussion board, exposed approximately 400 individuals. The compromised data reportedly includes email addresses, names, usernames, geographic locations, site activity records, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes alongside plaintext credentials.
  • Date: Jul 31, 2006
  • Domain: m-tvc.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: News & Media
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 880
  • Lines: 1,305,000
  • Size: 155.29 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 29%
In mid-2015, the Russian SEO and affiliate-marketing community forum Seofoxclub.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Seofoxclub.ru was a Russian-language XenForo-powered discussion board for webmasters and affiliate marketers. Reports suggest the database, containing approximately 2,700 records, was exposed, including email addresses, usernames, BCrypt-hashed passwords, genders, birthdates, geographic locations, site activity, and websites.
  • Date: Jun 2015
  • Domain: seofoxclub.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 2,870
  • Lines: 48,971
  • Size: 11.96 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2019, Russian online retailer Emkolbaski.ru, which specializes in sausage-making and meat-curing supplies, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 4,900 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, geographic locations, and site activity. No passwords were reportedly compromised.
  • Date: 2019
  • Domain: emkolbaski.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 9,502
  • Lines: 999,172
  • Size: 99.65 MB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2013, the Russian-language hacking and cracking community site Ufolabs.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. The site, which ran on the DataLife Engine CMS, hosted forum posts and content dedicated to brute-forcers, stealers, keyloggers, and password-cracking tooling. Reports suggest approximately 130,000 individuals were exposed, with compromised data including email addresses, usernames, names, IP addresses, social profile identifiers, geographic locations, site activity records, and passwords hashed with MD5(MD5()).
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles
  • Records: 130,357
  • Lines: 36,802
  • Size: 15.41 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, Unknown
In 2012, the Russian Lineage 2 fan community website La2making.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 5,000 records were exposed, containing email addresses, hashed passwords, usernames, IP addresses, geographic locations, websites, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 4,888
  • Lines: 84,170
  • Size: 32.72 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, MyBB, vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
In February 2015, FrozenCraft.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. FrozenCraft was a Russian Minecraft gaming community running both a DataLifeEngine CMS and an Invision Power Board forum. Reports suggest approximately 53,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, names, IP addresses, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored as MD5 and salted MyBB/IPB hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 77,632
  • Lines: 361,716
  • Size: 90.74 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, MyBB
  • Cracked: 44%
Sometime before late 2015, the Russian online store COLATAD (colatad.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the website sold digital goods, primarily PHP scripts and website templates. Approximately 270 individuals were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, IP addresses, geographic locations, and MD5-hashed passwords.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: colatad.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Bank Account Information IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 733
  • Lines: 10,684
  • Size: 1.38 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • 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.