Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

Sometime before November 2020, the online forums of the Marine Career Training Institute of North America (MCTINA) allegedly suffered a data breach. MCTINA is a US non-profit organization providing marine-technician education through hands-on training and online technical forums. The breach surfaced as part of the Cit0day collection released in November 2020, and reports suggest approximately 19,000 individuals were affected. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and passwords stored as vBulletin and bcrypt hashes.
  • Date: Nov 4, 2020
  • Domain: mctina.org
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 19,518
  • Lines: 19,518
  • Size: 1.77 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, vBulletin
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2019, QS Digital (qs.digital), a US-based digital marketing and web-design agency, allegedly suffered a data breach of its WordPress hosting environment. Reports suggest the exposed database contained records relating to approximately 9,000 individuals across the agency's own accounts and its hosted client sites. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, PHPass password hashes, IP addresses, website URLs, and site activity.
  • Date: 2019
  • Domain: qs.digital
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 9,156
  • Lines: 1,423,527
  • Size: 468.87 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2022, the US-based printing and flyers company Prima Flyers (primaflyers.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Prima Flyers is an Atlanta-based commercial print and marketing-materials shop with an online store. It has been reported that a full server database dump was leaked, exposing records for tens of thousands of customers across the company's 3dcart store and related systems. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, customer names, phone numbers, and physical/billing addresses. Approximately 39,000 unique email addresses were exposed.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: primaflyers.com
  • Threat Actor: Chucky
  • Country: United States
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 40,485
  • Lines: 5,473,284
  • Size: 562.67 MB
  • Passwords: No
In April 2022, Hi-Point Firearms (hi-pointfirearms.net), a US firearms manufacturer and retailer, allegedly suffered a data breach that was shared on hacking forums. The dump spanned the company's e-commerce systems — a custom cart platform plus a WooCommerce store. Reports suggest orders and customer accounts covering roughly 160,000 unique customers were exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations (billing and shipping addresses), and passwords stored as MD5, phpass, and PBKDF2 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 286,519
  • Lines: 9,263,753
  • Size: 775.56 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, PHPass, Unknown
Sometime around 2019, do.cabellostore.com, a Spanish-language online hair-extension and beauty-supply store ("Cabello Store") operating out of the United States, allegedly had its PrestaShop database exposed. Reports suggest approximately 2,000 individuals were affected, primarily through newsletter and transactional-email records, including email addresses, names, IP addresses, and a small number of MD5-hashed account passwords, phone numbers, and birthdates.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 7,890
  • Lines: 95,099
  • Size: 3.7 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
At an unknown date, a database belonging to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu) was allegedly exposed via SQL injection. Reports suggest approximately 700 records were affected, including names, email addresses and phone numbers. No passwords were present.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 782
  • Lines: 849
  • Size: 34.03 KB
  • Passwords: No
In November 2022, AR15Armory.com, a US-based internet firearms discussion forum running the Invision Community (IPS) software, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the forum database was made public, affecting approximately 31,000 members. The exposed data reportedly included email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, registration and activity dates, and password hashes stored as legacy salted-MD5 (IPB) and BCrypt.
  • Date: Nov 2022
  • Domain: ar15armory.com
  • Threat Actor: Chucky
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Weapons
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 32,450
  • Lines: 24,747,189
  • Size: 8.78 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MyBB
  • 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.