Breach Intelligence

6,872

Total breached databases

In 2020, the Miami Book Fair, a major U.S. literary festival organized by Miami Dade College and known for author talks, readings, and a large downtown street fair, experienced a data breach. The incident reportedly exposed approximately 8,776 user records. Among the compromised data were names, usernames, email addresses, and passwords hashed using PHPass.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 8,776
  • Lines: 8,796
  • Size: 6.6 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2025, New York University (NYU) suffered a data breach when its website was compromised for over two hours by a hacker protesting alleged race-based admissions. The attacker published data from over 3 million applicants dating back to 1989. NYU restored the site, launched an internal investigation, and began notifying affected individuals. At least 10 class action lawsuits have been filed. Although much of the data was redacted, it reportedly included names, email addresses, test scores, GPAs, geographic locations, financial aid details, ethnicities, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.
  • Data: Company Information Education Email Addresses Ethnicities Family Members Financial Information Genders Geographic Locations Names Nationalities Phone Numbers Salutations Social Security Numbers
  • Records: 1,206,262
  • Lines: 4,448,300
  • Size: 5.88 GB
  • Passwords: No
In 2020, the social networking platform USA.Life, which describes itself as a free-speech alternative to Facebook, allegedly experienced a data breach. The incident reportedly exposed a database containing information on approximately 144,637 users. Some of the leaked data includes usernames, email addresses, names, genders, geographic locations, IP addresses, and passwords hashed using a mix of SHA-1 and bcrypt, suggesting a possible transition between hashing algorithms over time.
  • Date: 2020
  • Domain: usa.life
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Social Media & Communication
  • Data: Email Addresses Genders Geographic Locations IP Addresses Names Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 144,651
  • Lines: 145,065
  • Size: 251.77 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
In August 2019, Audi USA suffered a data breach after a vendor left data unsecured and exposed on the internet. The data contained 2.7M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and vehicle information including VIN. In a disclosure statement from Audi, they also advised some customers had driver's licenses, dates of birth, social security numbers and other personal information exposed.
  • Data: Birthdates Driving License Numbers Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Social Security Numbers Vehicle Information
  • Records: 5,654,507
  • Lines: 5,654,509
  • Size: 1.21 GB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately June 2019, the website for buying & renting Condos Condo.com suffered a data breach that impacted 1.5 million users. The breach led to the exposure of data including Full names, Email addresses, Phone numbers and Locations.
  • Data: Company Information Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 1,573,685
  • Lines: 1,573,972
  • Size: 130.65 MB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2022, the "Largest Fitness Franchise Group in Boutique Fitness" Xponential Fitness suffered a data breach that impacted 179k customers. The attack led to the exposure of data including Email addresses, Full names and Locations. The database was leaked due to Xponential leaving a backup exposed.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Names
  • Records: 179,456
  • Lines: 179,610
  • Size: 12.97 MB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2024, millions of records scraped from the hunting and land management service HuntStand were publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 2.8M unique email addresses with many records also containing name, date of birth and country.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Geographic Locations Names
  • Records: 1,120,653
  • Lines: 170,476,725
  • Size: 4.48 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.