Breach Intelligence

2,855

Total breached databases

In May 2019, the Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma (Lawyers Order of Rome) allegedly suffered a data breach claimed by a group identifying as Anonymous Italy. The organization is the Italian bar association managing the professional registry and certified email (PEC) accounts for lawyers in Rome. Reports suggest approximately 38,000 individuals were affected, with exposed data including email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, phone numbers, addresses, Italian fiscal codes (codice fiscale), birthdates, and account activity records.
  • Date: May 2019
  • Threat Actor: Anonymous Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Site Activity Birthdates
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 39,826
  • Number of lines: 41,935
  • Size: 7.35 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2021, the Organismo de Acreditación Ecuatoriano (OAE), Ecuador's national accreditation body responsible for certifying laboratories and inspection agencies, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,200 user records were exposed, including email addresses, bcrypt password hashes, full names, usernames, phone numbers, government ID numbers (cédula and RUC), and account creation dates.
  • Date: 2021
  • Country: Ecuador
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Site Activity
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,500
  • Number of lines: 2,209
  • Size: 503.2 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 104492%
In 2021, the Organismo de Acreditación Ecuatoriano (OAE), Ecuador's national accreditation body operating at acreditacion.gob.ec, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 2,200 user records were exposed, including email addresses, full names, usernames, phone numbers, government ID numbers (CI/RUC), bcrypt-hashed passwords, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Site Activity
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 2,206
  • Number of lines: 2,209
  • Size: 503.2 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2022, the Iraqi Parliamentary Observatory allegedly suffered a data breach. The Iraqi Parliamentary Observatory is an Iraqi government transparency platform tracking parliamentary members, sessions, and legislative activities for the Council of Representatives. Reports suggest approximately 1,000 records were exposed, including names, genders, birthdates, geographic locations, email addresses, and site activity.
  • Country: Iraq
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 1,127
  • Size: 502.22 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2023, the Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud (IMJUVE), a Mexican federal government agency operating the youth platform at imjuventud.gob.mx, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data belonged to approximately 575 individuals and included email addresses, plaintext passwords, full names, geographic locations, government identification numbers (CURP), genders, birthdates, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 579
  • Size: 121.36 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In January 2022, the Indian jobseeker portal Jobringer (jobringer.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 234k user records, including email addresses, full names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, genders, marital statuses, ethnicities, religions, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Marital Statuses Relationship Statuses Genders Religions Site Activity Company Information Birthdates Ethnicities Nationalities
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 233,000
  • Number of lines: 233,162
  • Size: 19.36 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 1%
In May 2022, CTARS, an Australian cloud-based client management platform used by NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) disability care providers, allegedly suffered a data breach that was subsequently posted to an online hacking forum. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 55,000 individuals, including over 12,000 unique email addresses alongside names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, salutations, usernames, passwords, and sensitive personal health data related to patient conditions and treatments.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Health Information Genders Salutations Site Activity Company Information Birthdates
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 103,500
  • Number of lines: 106,114
  • Size: 39.34 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-256 Salted, Unknown

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.