Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In August 2017, an alleged data breach impacted Umbrellaworld.ru, a Russian online umbrella retailer. Reports suggest approximately 500 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, company information, MD5-hashed passwords, and a small number of plaintext passwords.
  • Date: Aug 17, 2017
  • Domain: umbrellaworld.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 547
  • Lines: 796
  • Size: 232.96 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 3%
Sometime before August 2018, the Russian Minecraft community site Partymine.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 17,000 user records were exposed, including email addresses, MD5-hashed passwords, usernames, names, IP addresses, geographic locations and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 17,103
  • Lines: 23,905
  • Size: 5.65 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before August 2016, 9v.ru, a Russian online electronics retailer running Joomla and VirtueMart, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 3,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, IP addresses, websites, job information, site activity, and passwords stored as BCrypt and SHA-1 hashes.
  • Date: 2016
  • Domain: 9v.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Websites Job Information
  • Records: 3,071
  • Lines: 4,060
  • Size: 1.56 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2021, Heyplay (heyplay.games), a Russian online gaming platform offering tournaments, subscriptions, and prize-based competitions, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 51,000 individuals were exposed, with compromised data including email addresses, BCrypt-hashed passwords, names, usernames, phone numbers, IP addresses, birthdates, genders, geographic locations, social profiles, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Birthdates
  • Records: 50,774
  • Lines: 678,906
  • Size: 126.8 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In October 2014, the Russian humor and entertainment portal Yaustal (yaustal.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Yaustal was a Russian-language humor and image-board website running on the DataLife Engine (DLE) CMS with a built-in user forum. Reports suggest approximately 1,200 records were exposed, including email addresses, MD5 password hashes, usernames, full names, IP addresses, birthdates, genders, ICQ identifiers, and personal websites.
  • Date: Oct 15, 2014
  • Domain: yaustal.com
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Streaming & Entertainment
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 1,340
  • Lines: 80,721
  • Size: 74.06 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2016, the Russian-language carding and cybercrime forum Verified.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 20,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, vBulletin password hashes with salts, birthdates, social profiles, geographic locations, websites and site activity.
  • Date: 2016
  • Domain: verified.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Hacking
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 23,208
  • Lines: 844,285
  • Size: 371.86 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
In April 2015, the Russian-language GTA San Andreas Multi-Player (SAMP) roleplay server Individual-game.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that approximately 23,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, plaintext passwords, usernames, IP addresses, geographic locations, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 22,745
  • Lines: 30,654
  • Size: 12.16 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext

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.