Breach Intelligence

2,855

Total breached databases

In June 2016, the teen social site known as i-Dressup was hacked and over 2 million user accounts were exposed. At the time the hack was reported, the i-Dressup operators were not contactable and the underlying SQL injection flaw remained open, allegedly exposing a total of 5.5 million accounts. The breach included email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 2,209,983
  • Number of lines: 2,209,990
  • Size: 69.27 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
The 14th of October 2021, the user Chucky posted in leakbase.io forum a database in SQL format with the following message: [H3]50 million Instagram data[/H3] Sql has a size of 1.92 GB and is 50 million data: Dumped around september. abbone2.7z 1.91 GB influenceur_202105011727.csv 221 MB There is not much information, but the leak is most probably from a 3rd party website, or from scrapping.
  • Date: Sep 2021
  • Domain: instagram.com
  • Category: Social Media & Communication
  • Records Announced: 50,000,000
  • Data: Ages Bios Genders Geographic Locations Languages Site Activity Social Profiles Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 49,392,715
  • Number of lines: 49,410,917
  • Size: 7.93 GB
  • Passwords: No
In March 2017, the Flash game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game Dueling Network suffered a data breach. The site itself was taken offline in 2016 due to a cease-and-desist order but the forum remained online for another year. The data breach exposed usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 6,487,031
  • Number of lines: 6,487,335
  • Size: 552.17 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 99%
In January 2020, the Barcelona-based dating app MobiFriends suffered a data breach that exposed 3.5 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, genders, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 3,687,343
  • Number of lines: 3,687,345
  • Size: 715.43 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 99%
In late 2015, the online penpal platform InterPals, known for connecting users around the world for language exchange and cultural communication, was hacked, resulting in the exposure of approximately 3.4 million user accounts. Among the compromised data were email addresses, geographic locations, birthdates, and salted password hashes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Geographic Locations Names Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,873,688
  • Number of lines: 3,450,451
  • Size: 655.77 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 38%
In August 2020, the clothing store Bonobos suffered a data breach that exposed almost 70GB of data containing 2.8 million unique email addresses. The breach also exposed names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, order histories and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes, including historical passwords. The breach also exposed partial credit card data including card type, the name on the card, expiry date and the last 4 digits of the card.
  • Data: Credit Card Information Email Addresses IP Addresses Names Order Information Passwords Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,852,892
  • Number of lines: 1,852,893
  • Size: 985.66 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2016, the porn website Abby Winters suffered a data breach that impacted 435k users. The breach included Email addresses (Encrypted, not readable), Usernames and Passwords stored as Haval-256 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 435,590
  • Number of lines: 435,624
  • Size: 126.57 MB
  • Passwords: Hashed
  • 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.