Breach Intelligence

2,852

Total breached databases

In 2014, Sythe.org, a popular online gaming community, suffered a significant data breach affecting 268,515 users. The compromised data included IP addresses, usernames, email addresses, and passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 262,719
  • Lines: 262,719
  • Size: 23.25 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 96%
This database is a compilation of mixed data from multiple leaks in Pakistan, featuring telecom data from major operators like Jazz, Zong, Ufone, and Telenor. The dataset includes personal information such as mobile phone numbers, CNICs (Computerized National Identity Cards), addresses, and full names. It comprises a total of approximately 129 million unique records.
  • Date: 2014
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Government IDs
  • Records: 129,656,241
  • Lines: 129,656,242
  • Size: 12.34 GB
  • Passwords: No
In approximately February 2018, the employment website Jobandtalent suffered a data breach which then appeared for sale alongside other breaches a year later. The incident impacted 11 million subscribers and exposed their names, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Names Passwords
  • Records: 11,067,225
  • Lines: 11,071,953
  • Size: 1.2 GB
  • Passwords: Rails
  • Cracked: 57%
In June 2014, Black Hat World, a search engine optimisation forum, allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed around 750,000 accounts. The compromised information, which was publicly released in the form of a MySQL database script, reportedly included various personally identifiable attributes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Site Activity Social Profiles Usernames
  • Records: 774,386
  • Lines: 774,411
  • Size: 393.51 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 18%
In August 2012, the Xiaomi user forum website suffered a data breach. In all, 7 million email addresses appeared in the breach although a significant portion of them were numeric aliases on the bbs_ml_as_uid.xiaomi.com domain. Usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes were also exposed. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 7,086,368
  • Lines: 7,087,103
  • Size: 654.62 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 17%
In December 2018, the Town of Salem website, developed by BlankMediaGames, reportedly suffered a data breach. The incident is said to have affected over 7.6 million users. Among the compromised data were email addresses, IP addresses, order information, passwords, site activity, and usernames.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Order Information Passwords Site Activity Usernames
  • Records: 7,785,160
  • Lines: 7,787,468
  • Size: 613.72 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 73%
In approximately December 2019, the betting & sports news website ActionNetwork suffered a data breach that impacted 693k users. The breach included Email addresses, Full names, Phone numbers, Usernames and Passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers Usernames
  • Records: 693,637
  • Lines: 693,795
  • Size: 830.76 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%

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.