Breach Intelligence

2,852

Total breached databases

In October 2016, the Minecraft banning service MCBans allegedly suffered a data breach. MCBans allowed server administrators to globally ban players across participating servers. Reports suggest approximately 136,000 user records were exposed, including email and IP addresses, usernames, and password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 135,985
  • Lines: 4,215,619
  • Size: 115.01 MB
  • Passwords: Hashed, Unknown
In approximately July 2022, the US-based IT recruitment and staffing service 247Hire allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 50,000 candidate records, including email addresses, names, job titles, US locations, and visa statuses.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Usernames Credit Card Information Site Activity Job Information
  • Records: 139,385
  • Lines: 50,047
  • Size: 5.16 GB
  • Passwords: No
In April 2021, Indian brokerage firm Upstox allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed personal information on approximately 111,000 customers, including names, genders, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, government-issued IDs (Aadhaar/PAN), banking information, income levels, occupations, marital statuses, nationalities, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Bank Account Information Financial Information Government IDs Family Members Marital Statuses Relationship Statuses Genders Site Activity Job Information Birthdates Nationalities
  • Records: 100,001
  • Lines: 100,001
  • Size: 543.82 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In September 2022, Optus, Australia's second-largest telecommunications provider, allegedly suffered a significant data breach affecting its customer database. Reports suggest a threat actor accessed and briefly published approximately 10,000 customer records as a proof sample before retracting them. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, home addresses, and government-issued identification numbers (driving licence numbers).
  • Date: Sep 2022
  • Domain: optus.com.au
  • Country: Australia
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 10,199
  • Lines: 10,197
  • Size: 15.85 MB
  • Passwords: No
In October 2022, the GTA mod menu reseller RealDudesInc allegedly suffered a data breach. The breach reportedly exposed approximately 100,000 accounts, including email addresses, usernames, and bcrypt password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 101,940
  • Lines: 101,999
  • Size: 18.28 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 3%
In early 2013, Forumkorner.com allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the site, a gaming-focused online forum, had approximately 22,000 user records exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, usernames, MyBB password hashes and salts, IP addresses, dates of birth, social profile handles, and website URLs.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Social Profiles Websites Birthdates
  • Records: 21,579
  • Lines: 21,712
  • Size: 40.54 MB
  • Passwords: MyBB
  • Cracked: 67%
On January 23, 2020, Mover24.ru allegedly suffered a data breach. Mover24.ru is a Russian online platform connecting clients with freight companies and drivers for local moving and delivery services. Reports suggest approximately 638 individuals had their data exposed, including email addresses, full names, phone numbers, and geographic locations.
  • Date: Jan 23, 2020
  • Domain: mover24.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Logistics & Transportation
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 638
  • Lines: 199,594
  • Size: 135.58 MB
  • 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.