Breach Intelligence

2,855

Total breached databases

In October 2022, the gaming companion platform E-Pal (epal.gg) allegedly suffered a data breach. E-Pal is a service that connects gamers with companions and friends for online games via Discord and similar platforms. Reports suggest the incident exposed data from approximately 109,000 unique individuals drawn from approximately 1 million orders, including email addresses, usernames, and order information.
  • Data: Email Addresses Usernames Order Information Site Activity
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,818,000
  • Number of lines: 931,000
  • Size: 250.12 MB
  • Passwords: No
In May 2021, the Bulgarian website Daxy.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Daxy.com is a Bulgarian corporate intelligence provider serving business clients. It has been reported that approximately 137,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, plaintext passwords, phone numbers, IP addresses, and geographic locations.
  • Date: May 10, 2021
  • Domain: daxy.com
  • Country: Bulgaria
  • Category: Technology
  • Records Announced: 137,053
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 135,500
  • Number of lines: 137,195
  • Size: 22.29 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2023, Verynicetech.com, a Guatemalan event ticketing and management platform operating under the heyy.one brand, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 45,000 individuals were affected, with exposed data including email addresses, full names, usernames, and plaintext passwords.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: verynicetech.com
  • Country: Guatemala
  • Category: Streaming & Entertainment
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 111,000
  • Number of lines: 113,809
  • Size: 129.5 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
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
  • Records Announced: 51,207
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 47,008
  • Number of lines: 51,269
  • Size: 2.83 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2014, Prime Gaming (primegaming.com), a European social gaming and loyalty platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the breach exposed data on approximately 808,000 individuals, including email addresses, usernames, names, birthdates, phone numbers, geographic locations, languages, passwords, and job and company information.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Job Information Company Information Birthdates Languages
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 913,005
  • Number of lines: 917,271
  • Size: 136.7 MB
  • Passwords: Unknown
In late 2021, Cubitts, a British independent eyewear retailer operating at cubitts.com, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its customer database. Reports suggest approximately 170,000 individuals were exposed, with compromised data including email addresses, full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, account creation dates, and salted SHA-512 password hashes.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: cubitts.com
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 170,000
  • Number of lines: 172,223
  • Size: 26.77 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2022, AirAsia, a Malaysian low-cost airline, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its internal crew and employee management systems. Reports suggest that approximately 7,000 employee records were exposed, including email addresses, plaintext passwords, SHA-1 password hashes, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, geographic locations, and employee usernames.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: airasia.com
  • Country: Malaysia
  • Category: Travel
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 5,000
  • Number of lines: 7,008
  • Size: 2.36 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 73%

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.