Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In September 2024, VK (VKontakte), one of the largest social networking platforms in Russia, suffered a massive data breach. This breach exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of users, including basic identification and location details.
  • Date: Sep 2024
  • Domain: vk.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Social Media & Communication
  • Data: Genders Geographic Locations Government IDs Names Profile Photos
  • Records: 390,423,055
  • Lines: 390,425,719
  • Size: 27.66 GB
  • Passwords: No
In end of May 2023, the Russian website of the hypermarket chain Leroy Merlin suffered a data breach.Breach became known in June 2023 and exposed over 5 million personal clients data attributes including names, phone numbers, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.The leak also contained genders, dates of birth, and physical addresses.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Geographic Locations Names Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations Site Activity Social Profiles
  • Records: 5,102,907
  • Lines: 5,102,909
  • Size: 1.5 GB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 2%
In August 2022, the Russian service to help you with your taxes "Regme онлайн" suffered a data breach. The leak led to the exposure of data including Email addresses, Phone numbers, Full names and Passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes. In total, 269k users were affected.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers
  • Records: 269,908
  • Lines: 270,076
  • Size: 85.23 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2022, Vezetvsem.ru, a Russian logistics and freight transportation platform based in Moscow, reportedly experienced a data breach affecting approximately 1,631,435 user records. The compromised data included names, email addresses, phone numbers, and birthdates. No passwords were included in the leak.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: vezetvsem.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Logistics & Transportation
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers
  • Records: 1,618,882
  • Lines: 1,619,074
  • Size: 169.45 MB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately January 2015, the Russian dating site LovePlanet suffered a data breach that impacted 20 million users. The breach led to the exposure of data including Usernames, Email addresses and Passwords stored in Plaintext. Its alleged that it was hacked by GnosticPlayers.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 20,022,000
  • Lines: 20,077,072
  • Size: 848.96 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
The data leak associated with the Russian engineering community site, vmasshtabe.ru, occurred around September 7, 2023. A significant database containing information on approximately 1.3 million registered users was leaked. This data reportedly came from an Elasticsearch server that was improperly configured and publicly accessible, leading to the unauthorized exposure of user information. The leaked data was made available on various forums and includes details such as usernames and email addresses.
  • Date: Sep 7, 2023
  • Domain: vmasshtabe.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Industry
  • Data: Email Addresses Usernames
  • Records: 1,357,586
  • Lines: 1,357,831
  • Size: 2.67 GB
  • Passwords: No
In May 2015, Спрашивай.ру (a the Russian website for anonymous reviews) was reported to have had 6.7 million user details exposed by a hacker known as "w0rm". Intended to be a site for expressing anonymous opinions, the leaked data included email addresses, birth dates and other personally identifiable data about almost 3.5 million unique email addresses found in the leak.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Geographic Locations IP Addresses Languages Passwords
  • Records: 3,480,002
  • Lines: 3,480,002
  • Size: 2.53 GB
  • Passwords: Unknown

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.