Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In March 2024, the Russian chain of orthopedic centers ORTEKA suffered a data leak. ORTEKA is known for its orthopedic services and products. Reports suggest that the breach was carried out by an individual or group known as 'Sh4dow', affecting approximately 3.9 million users. Among the compromised data were email addresses, dates of birth, genders, phone numbers, physical locations, and order details. Passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes were also exposed.
  • Date: Mar 2024
  • Domain: orteka.ru
  • Threat Actor: Sh4dow
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Birthdates Genders Phone Numbers Physical Locations Order Information
  • Records: 3,936,000
  • Lines: 3,949,762
  • Size: 2.36 GB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2019, Mineland Network (mineland.net), a Russian Minecraft server offering various game modes and experiences, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that approximately 1.7 million records were exposed, including usernames, IP addresses, email addresses, and salted password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 1,728,894
  • Lines: 1,733,618
  • Size: 226.03 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
In 2023, an educational platform in Russia, known for providing academic-related services, experienced a significant data breach. Reports indicate that the breach exposed over 5.2 million records. Among the compromised data were email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical locations, government IDs, genders, site activity, job information, birthdates, nationalities, and education details.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Government IDs Genders Site Activity Job Information Birthdates Nationalities Education
  • Records: 5,274,263
  • Lines: 5,274,269
  • Size: 3.02 GB
  • Passwords: No
In September 2022, the website sushi-master.ru, a chain of sushi, rolls, and other pan-Asian dishes, suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the breach exposed approximately 852,000 users and 2.7 million orders. Among the compromised data were names, genders, phone numbers, email addresses, birthdays, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 852,062
  • Lines: 852,065
  • Size: 53.69 MB
  • Passwords: No
In February 2016, the Russian gaming company Nival was the target of an attack that was later detailed on Reddit. The breach, which affected multiple Russian sites, compromised over 1.5 million accounts. The exposed data included birthdates, email addresses, genders, languages, names, profile photos, site activity, and usernames.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Languages Names Profile Photos Site Activity Usernames
  • Records: 2,626,151
  • Lines: 54,992,730
  • Size: 1.23 GB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately 2012, the Russian social media site known as VK was hacked and almost 100 million accounts were exposed. The data emerged in June 2016 where it was being sold via a dark market website and included names, phone numbers email addresses and plain text passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers
  • Records: 92,473,117
  • Lines: 92,473,649
  • Size: 2.73 GB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In May 2018, the Russian hacking forum Lolzteam suffered a data breach that exposed 400k members. The impacted data included usernames and email addresses which were later redistributed via another hacking forum.
  • Data: Email Addresses Usernames
  • Records: 398,213
  • Lines: 400,258
  • Size: 93.6 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.