Breach Intelligence

2,855

Total breached databases

In August 2018, the SIMs based avatar website NewseaSIMS (2018) suffered a data breach that impacted 197k users. The breach led to the exposure of data including Usernames, Email addresses and Passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The website was previously breached in 2016.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 120,094
  • Number of lines: 120,096
  • Size: 20.44 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 100%
In April 2014, the Gaming Cheats website known as AimJunkies suffered a data breach that impacted 166k members. The attack led to the exposure of data including Email addresses, Usernames and IP Addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 164,436
  • Number of lines: 166,390
  • Size: 7.28 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2023, EscapadaRural, a leading rural tourism platform in Spain and Portugal, was allegedly affected by a data breach involving approximately 2,951,734 user records. The exposed data reportedly included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, genders, and geographic locations. No passwords were included in the breach.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Geographic Locations Names Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 2,951,734
  • Number of lines: 2,951,735
  • Size: 640.53 MB
  • Passwords: No
In July 2013, Nexus Mods, a game modding site, allegedly suffered a data breach that impacted 5.9 million users. The incident reportedly exposed usernames, email addresses, and passwords stored as salted hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 5,920,919
  • Number of lines: 5,920,919
  • Size: 444.56 MB
  • Passwords: MyBB
  • Cracked: 11%
In May 2016, LinkedIn had 164 million email addresses and passwords exposed. Originally hacked in 2012, the data remained out of sight until being offered for sale on a dark market site 4 years later. The passwords in the breach were stored as SHA1 hashes without salt, the vast majority of which were quickly cracked in the days following the release of the data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 201,222,567
  • Number of lines: 250,758,057
  • Size: 10.58 GB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 96%
In July 2020, the Brazilian Marketing Agency Engrenagem Virtual suffered a data breach that impacted 430k Entries. The leak led to the exposure of data including Email addresses, Full names, Dates of birth, Genders, Marital Statuses and Phone numbers. The website now displays a "Coming Soon" page, but in 2020 they still had their website open (Archived Copy Here).
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders Marital Statuses Names Phone Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 430,936
  • Number of lines: 430,938
  • Size: 322.2 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-256 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44M records containing 7.4M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included the subscriber's country and password hash. START subsequently acknowledged the incident in a Telegram post and stated that the data dated back to 2021.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Names Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 43,937,127
  • Number of lines: 3,528,619,396
  • Size: 71.97 GB
  • Passwords: MD5Crypt
  • 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.