Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In 2016, Abusewith.us, a site dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts, allegedly suffered multiple data breaches. Reports suggest the site shared an administrator with the now-defunct LeakedSource service. The incident reportedly exposed more than 1.3 million unique email addresses, often accompanied by usernames, IP addresses, and passwords—stored either in plain text or as hashes—sourced from various locations and intended for use in compromising victims’ accounts.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 7,309,586
  • Lines: 7,344,696
  • Size: 509.59 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2018, a dataset known as “USA Mobile” surfaced online, reportedly containing approximately 6.7 million records. Although not linked to any confirmed data breach, the information appears to have been compiled from scraped sources or marketing lead lists. The exposed data included names, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, physical locations, and genders. No passwords were included. Its presence on underground forums suggests potential misuse for spam, scams, or targeted advertising.
  • Date: 2018
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Email Addresses Genders IP Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 6,779,961
  • Lines: 6,779,962
  • Size: 842.52 MB
  • Passwords: No
April 8th, 2024, a Threat Actor operating under the moniker "USDoD" placed a large database up for sale on Breached titled: "National Public Data". They claimed it contained 2,900,000,000 records on United States citizens
  • Data: Birthdates Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Social Security Numbers
  • Records: 2,695,681,511
  • Lines: 2,695,681,513
  • Size: 277.09 GB
  • Passwords: No
In December 2010, Gawker was reportedly attacked by the hacker collective "Gnosis," allegedly in retaliation for a feud with 4Chan. The breach exposed information on 1.3 million users of Gawker, along with data from its other platforms, including Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Due to widespread password reuse, many victims later had their Twitter accounts compromised and used to distribute Acai berry spam.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 1,247,846
  • Lines: 1,247,893
  • Size: 71.75 MB
  • Passwords: DES
  • Cracked: 0%
This database contains logs of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces in the state of Texas in United States. Containing 15,011,596 Births from 1950 to 1995; 4,030,672 Deaths from 1965 to 1999; 3,777,616 Divorces from 1968 to 2014 & 8,364,633 Marriages from 1966 to 2014.
  • Date: 2014
  • Domain: texas.gov
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Birthdates Death Information Genders Geographic Locations Marital Statuses Names
  • Records: 31,184,517
  • Lines: 31,184,517
  • Size: 2.22 GB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2021, the mobile parking app service ParkMobile suffered a data breach which exposed 21 million customers' personal data. The impacted data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, vehicle licence plates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The following month, the data appeared on a public hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed.
  • Data: Email Addresses License Plate Numbers Names Passwords Phone Numbers
  • Records: 21,890,324
  • Lines: 21,890,325
  • Size: 4.56 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 29%
In 2015, a massive database referred to as the “USA voters database” was discovered publicly exposed online, containing approximately 152 million voter records. The data included names, birthdates, email addresses, phone numbers, physical locations, ethnicities, and political affiliations. No passwords were included. Although the ownership of the database was unclear, the exposure was widely reported and raised serious concerns about voter privacy and the security of publicly accessible government-related data.
  • Date: Dec 2015
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Ethnicities Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Political Affiliation
  • Records: 152,887,912
  • Lines: 152,887,913
  • Size: 15.39 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.