Breach Intelligence

2,843

Total breached databases

FileIce 2015

In May 2015, the File sharing service FileIce suffered a data breach that impacted 5.0k users. The leak led to the exposure of data including Email addresses, Usernames, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as MD5(phpBB3) hashes. The website is now defunct.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 5,033
  • Size: 401.68 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Earth 2 2024

Earth 2 2024

In October 2024, approximately 421,000 unique email addresses from the virtual earth game Earth 2 were exposed through embedded Gravatar images. The exposure stemmed from how Gravatar presents avatar links as MD5 hashes of users' email addresses, which appeared alongside player usernames. Earth 2 stated that this feature has since been disabled on their platform. No additional personal information, passwords, or financial data were exposed in the incident.
  • Data: Email Addresses Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Ancestry 2015

Ancestry 2015

In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The breach was not discovered until late 2017 when a file containing almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords was identified.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Retina-X 2017

Retina-X 2017

In February 2017, the mobile device monitoring software developer Retina-X was hacked and customer data downloaded before being wiped from their servers. The incident was covered in the Motherboard article titled Inside the 'Stalkerware' Surveillance Market, Where Ordinary People Tap Each Other's Phones. The service, used to monitor mobile devices, had 71k email addresses and MD5 hashes with no salt exposed. Retina-X disclosed the incident in a blog post on April 27, 2017.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Taklope 2022

Taklope 2022

In approximately January 2022, the online store belonging to French e-cigarette and vape company Taklope suffered a data breach. The attack led to the exposure of data including Full names, Email addresses, Dates of birth and Passwords stored as MD5($salt.$pass) hashes (Static salt). In total, 269k users were affected.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Names Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Finsure 2024

Finsure 2024

In October 2024, nearly 300,000 unique email addresses associated with Australian mortgage broking group Finsure were exposed in a breach involving the ActivePipe real estate marketing platform. The compromised data also included names, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: Unknown

River City Media Spam List 2017

In January 2017, a massive trove of data from River City Media was found exposed online. The data was found to contain almost 1.4 billion records including email and IP addresses, names and physical addresses, all of which was used as part of an enormous spam operation. Once de-duplicated, there were 393 million unique email addresses within the exposed data.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Names Physical Locations
  • Imported:
  • Passwords: No

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.