Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In May 2021, the fan engagement and game trivia platform Reward the Fan allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident impacted approximately 95,000 members and exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and reward point balances.
  • Data: Email Addresses Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Balances Site Activity
  • Records: 96,561
  • Lines: 1,545,251
  • Size: 36.49 MB
  • Passwords: No
In December 2022, InfraGard — the FBI's vetted public-private information sharing network for critical infrastructure protection — allegedly suffered a data breach attributed to threat actor USDoD. Reports suggest approximately 87,700 records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, usernames, job information, company affiliations, and geographic locations.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 87,789
  • Lines: 87,820
  • Size: 89.77 MB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2021, TextBlack.ai, a US-based bulk SMS marketing platform, allegedly suffered a data breach exposing outbox message logs. Reports suggest approximately 5.9 million unique phone numbers were exposed, along with recipient names, message activity dates, and geographic location data.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: textblack.ai
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 8,699,406
  • Lines: 8,699,406
  • Size: 5.91 GB
  • Passwords: No
In June 2011, Sony Pictures Entertainment, the motion-picture arm of Sony, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a SQL injection vulnerability on sonypictures.com was exploited to expose accounts tied to several promotional and sweepstakes databases. It has been reported that approximately 37,000 individuals were affected, with the exposed data including email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, and geographic location details.
  • Date: Jun 2011
  • Domain: sonypictures.com
  • Threat Actor: LulzSec
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Streaming & Entertainment
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations
  • Records: 51,196
  • Lines: 51,269
  • Size: 2.83 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In October 2015, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allegedly suffered a data breach exposing employee contact directories. Reports suggest the data was later redistributed on hacking forums. It has been reported that approximately 31,000 records were exposed, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, job titles, and geographic locations.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Job Information Fax Numbers
  • Records: 31,530
  • Lines: 31,564
  • Size: 2.63 MB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately March 2022, Public Citizen (citizen.org), a US-based nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, allegedly suffered a data breach after an SQL injection vulnerability was exploited. Reports suggest that approximately 53,000 individuals were affected, with exposed data including email addresses, full names, physical addresses, geographic locations, IP addresses, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Physical Locations Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 120,333
  • Lines: 120,428
  • Size: 10.59 MB
  • Passwords: No
At an unconfirmed date, the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health (pbghpa.com), a regional coalition of employers focused on group health-benefit and prescription-drug purchasing programs, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that approximately 700 individuals had their information exposed. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, geographic locations, and company information.
  • Domain: pbghpa.com
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Company Information
  • Records: 832
  • Lines: 844
  • Size: 136.39 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext

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.