Breach Intelligence

6,874

Total breached databases

Sometime around 2023, Elephant Insurance (elephant.com), a US auto insurance provider serving several eastern and southern states, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest data belonging to approximately 1.8 million customers was exposed. The exposed data included email addresses, full names, dates of birth, phone numbers, physical addresses, driving license numbers, and credit-card billing details (cardholder name, billing address, and expiry), alongside a set of account records with bcrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: elephant.com
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Credit Card Information Government IDs Site Activity Birthdates Driving License Numbers
  • Records: 8,144,900
  • Lines: 8,144,901
  • Size: 1.3 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In early 2025, HOLT CAT (holtcat.com), the authorized Caterpillar heavy-equipment and engine dealer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, allegedly suffered a data breach attributed to the Cactus ransomware group. Reports suggest the exposed data included a CRM contact export of roughly 67,000 unique individuals. The compromised information reportedly includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and partial postal addresses. No passwords were present in the leaked data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 191,471
  • Lines: 191,472
  • Size: 35.36 MB
  • Passwords: No
In December 2025, Flower Wholesale (flowerwholesale.com), operated by Potomac Floral Wholesale — a US supplier of fresh cut flowers, plants and floral supplies to the Mid-Atlantic and Washington, DC area — allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the OpenCart store database was subsequently published on a hacking forum. The exposed data reportedly contained approximately 150,000 unique customer records, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical and order addresses, IP addresses and salted SHA-1 password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Payment Information Order Information IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information Personal Information Shipment Information
  • Records: 230,804
  • Lines: 2,764,432
  • Size: 300.14 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In July 2026, RevolutionParts (revolutionparts.com), a US-based e-commerce platform that powers online parts and accessories sales for automotive dealerships, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the data was subsequently published on hacking forums. The exposed data reportedly contained approximately 1.1 million records, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and device information. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: Jul 2026
  • Domain: revolutionparts.com
  • Threat Actor: kitta
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Automotive
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Device Information
  • Records: 1,112,862
  • Lines: 1,112,862
  • Size: 579.83 MB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2026, King of the Curve (kingofthecurve.org), a US-based educational-technology platform offering gamified MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) exam preparation via web and mobile apps, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the breach exposed approximately 330,000 customer profiles, of which around 283,000 included email addresses. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, gender, ethnicity, employment status, household income, IP addresses, and device identifiers. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Financial Information Genders IP Addresses Job Information Birthdates Device Identifiers
  • Records: 280,678
  • Lines: 330,853
  • Size: 166.84 MB
  • Passwords: No
In May 2023, the US-based B2B email marketing platform Email Panther (emailpanther.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the platform's full database, containing approximately 15.2 million records, was exposed and later distributed on a hacking forum. The exposed data reportedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, IP addresses, company information, and site activity, along with a small number of administrator account passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 53,990,839
  • Lines: 122,383,865
  • Size: 55.59 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company including 12.9M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The published corpus also contained millions of synthetic records that did not relate to real individuals and were excluded from the breach.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 59,537,042
  • Lines: 489,980,624
  • Size: 127.34 GB
  • 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.