Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In March 2026, the hacker and extortion group "ShinyHunters" allegedly obtained a substantial corpus of data from ZenBusiness, a business formation and compliance platform. Reports suggest the data was exfiltrated from platforms including Snowflake, Mixpanel and Salesforce, and that the group threatened to publish it unless a ransom was paid. It has been reported that the data was publicly released the following month after no agreement was reached. The collection amounted to many terabytes across thousands of files originating from multiple business systems, including leads, support records and other CRM-related data. Approximately 1 million unique email addresses were exposed, often accompanied by names, phone numbers and geographic locations depending on the source file.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 28,121,094
  • Lines: 28,121,234
  • Size: 3.55 GB
  • Passwords: ?
In January 2026, the American automotive research and car-shopping platform Edmunds allegedly suffered a data breach that was attributed to the ShinyHunters group and subsequently published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed data included approximately 178,000 unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses, and passwords. It has been reported that some passwords were stored in plaintext while others were protected only with base64-encoded SHA-1 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 49,985
  • Lines: 50,000
  • Size: 10.8 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, SHA-1
In late 2022, the dance community app CMeShine (cmeshine.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. CMeShine is a social and studio-management platform that connects dancers, dance studios, and parents. It has been reported that the exposed data contained approximately 1,900 individuals, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, physical addresses, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: cmeshine.com
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Social Media & Communication
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Usernames Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 6,699
  • Lines: 693,158
  • Size: 521.18 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
On April 5, 2022, truPayments, a US-based automotive digital retailing and payments platform that generates vehicle financing leads for car and motorcycle dealerships, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a sales-lead export containing approximately 2,900 records was exposed, including email addresses and phone numbers. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Phone Numbers
  • Records: 3,093
  • Lines: 6,186
  • Size: 79.91 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime in or before 2022, the online store at castlesherwood.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Castle Sherwood was a small OpenCart-based e-commerce shop selling apparel and print-on-demand goods. Reports suggest the exposed database contained approximately 220 records, including email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses, browser/device details, and salted SHA-1 password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Usernames IP Addresses Device Information
  • Records: 220
  • Lines: 21,247
  • Size: 1.11 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2023, a payday-loan lead-generation and call-center database tied to Briskbrain Technologies (briskbraintech.com) was allegedly exposed. Reports suggest the dump contained data on approximately 28,000 individuals across nearly 40,000 records. The exposed information allegedly included full names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, physical addresses, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, employer and income details, IP addresses, and a small set of staff usernames with plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Financial Information Government IDs Social Security Numbers IP Addresses Birthdates Driving License Numbers
  • Records: 39,445
  • Lines: 379,196
  • Size: 97.36 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime before 2022, the children's reading program Book Adventure (booktaco.com, formerly bookadventure.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Book Adventure is a free online reading-motivation and comprehension program for K-8 students, teachers, and parents. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 950 individuals, including email addresses and names. No passwords were included in the exposed data.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: booktaco.com
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names
  • Records: 3,444
  • Lines: 3,225,051
  • Size: 1.27 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.