Breach Intelligence

2,855

Total breached databases

In 2002, Habbo.st Hotel, a fan server based on the original Habbo Hotel virtual world, experienced a data breach involving approximately 888,584 user records. The platform, modeled after the popular pixel-art styled social MMORPG developed by Sulake, allowed users to create avatars, socialize, and engage in online role-playing. The compromised data included usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, and passwords hashed using salted MD5.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 901,658
  • Number of lines: 901,668
  • Size: 65.82 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 91%
In approximately July 2022, the adult forum 草榴社區 (clf09) suffered a data breach that impacted 3.2 million users. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses and Passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 3,282,713
  • Number of lines: 3,282,762
  • Size: 191.73 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In approximately September 2019, the Platform for discovering Videos MeFeedia (Now defunct) suffered a data breach that impacted 1.6 million users. The breach led to the exposure of data including Usernames, Email addresses, IP Addresses, Physical addresses and Passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The website was breached by GnosticPlayers.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Physical Locations Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,649,718
  • Number of lines: 1,649,772
  • Size: 381.09 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 91%
In January 2019, the travel and hotel booking site ixigo suffered a data breach. The data appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace the following month and included over 17M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, phone numbers, connections to Facebook profiles and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Device Information Email Addresses Genders Names Passwords Phone Numbers Salutations Security Credentials Social Profiles Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 17,240,334
  • Number of lines: 17,241,364
  • Size: 29.39 GB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 99%
In 2020, it was reported that the StuffAndThings platform experienced a data breach, affecting approximately 40 million users. The compromised data included email addresses, passwords, and security questions.
  • Date: 2020
  • Category: Weapons
  • Records Announced: 43,756,804
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Security Hints
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 43,802,655
  • Number of lines: 43,802,711
  • Size: 2.83 GB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In early 2013, tumblr suffered a data breach which resulted in the exposure of over 65 million accounts. The data was later put up for sale on a dark market website and included email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA1 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 73,362,785
  • Number of lines: 73,369,245
  • Size: 4.57 GB
  • Passwords: SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In June 2020, 14 previously undisclosed data breaches appeared for sale including the Brazilian delivery service, "James". The breach occurred in March 2020 and exposed 1.5M unique email addresses, customer locations expressed in longitude and latitude and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,677,457
  • Number of lines: 1,677,636
  • Size: 764.69 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 26%

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.