Breach Intelligence

6,236

Total breached databases

In early 2025, Zipedia.co.il, an Israeli vacation-rental and holiday-accommodation (tzimmer) listing site, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 1,900 advertiser accounts and listings. The compromised data allegedly included display/business names, login usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, and plaintext passwords.
  • Date: Mar 3, 2025
  • Domain: zipedia.co.il
  • Threat Actor: BanyuwangiXploit
  • Country: Israel
  • Category: Travel
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 1,901
  • Lines: 2,030
  • Size: 133.7 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In January 2026, CarsDir (carsdir.com), an online classifieds platform for new and used cars in the Middle East, allegedly suffered a data breach via SQL injection. Reports suggest approximately 56,000 member records were exposed, including email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses, and site-activity dates.
  • Date: Jan 20, 2026
  • Domain: carsdir.com
  • Threat Actor: Al-Sheikh
  • Category: Automotive
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 55,417
  • Lines: 85,191
  • Size: 18.26 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In November 2022, the hacking forum BreachForums (v1) was itself breached. The exposed data is the original MyBB backup taken on 29 November 2022, shortly before the site's operator was arrested and the forum was seized by law enforcement. Reports suggest approximately 306,000 records were exposed. The compromised data allegedly included usernames, email addresses, IP addresses (registration and last-activity), private messages, forum posts, payment logs, and passwords stored as Argon2id hashes (with a subset of legacy MyBB md5-of-md5 salted hashes).
  • Date: Nov 29, 2022
  • Domain: breachforums.com
  • Threat Actor: Emo
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames Payment Information IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Messages
  • Records: 376,498
  • Lines: 5,979,697
  • Size: 2.06 GB
  • Passwords: Hashed Salted, MyBB
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2024, the Republic of Korea branch of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU, ffwp.or.kr) — the religious organization also known as the Unification Church — allegedly had its membership database exposed. Reports suggest the leak comprised two member-roster snapshots (2023 and 2024) covering roughly 1.2 million members, including full names, dates of birth, gender, home and postal addresses, phone numbers, and a small number of passport numbers, along with extensive religious-affiliation details.
  • Date: 2024
  • Domain: ffwp.or.kr
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: Non-Profit & Charities
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 2,223,627
  • Lines: 2,223,634
  • Size: 836.77 MB
  • Passwords: No
Fit und Munter (fitundmunter.de) is a German fitness and wellness community forum. At some point, it allegedly suffered a data breach that was later shared on an underground forum. Reports suggest that data belonging to approximately 29,000 members was exposed. The compromised information reportedly includes email addresses, usernames, names, plaintext passwords, IP addresses, and geographic location details.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Websites
  • Records: 77,847
  • Lines: 588,632
  • Size: 508.87 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5
In August 2023, a database belonging to VuLiv (vuliv.com), an Indian media/entertainment Android app (VuLiv Player, associated with MojoBoxx inflight advertising), was allegedly leaked. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 686,000 users. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, mobile phone numbers, telecom carrier and circle, full names, dates of birth, genders, physical addresses, government identifiers (Aadhaar) for a subset of records, and BCrypt-hashed passwords for internal accounts.
  • Date: Aug 17, 2023
  • Domain: vuliv.com
  • Threat Actor: Chucky
  • Country: India
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 1,472,211
  • Lines: 31,774,117
  • Size: 5.22 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In December 2023, the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM, tum.ac.ke) allegedly suffered a data breach. TUM is a public technical university in Mombasa, Kenya. The hacktivist group SiegedSec claimed responsibility, saying it had exfiltrated hundreds of thousands of records covering both students and staff. Reports suggest the exposed data includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, Kenyan national ID numbers, dates of birth, genders, and salutations for approximately 71,000 individuals, alongside internal system tables, SMS logs, and account password hashes (MD5, bcrypt, and SHA-512).
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Balances Government IDs Genders Salutations IP Addresses Birthdates
  • Records: 408,509
  • Lines: 414,970
  • Size: 151.75 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5, SHA-512
  • 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.