Breach Intelligence

3,151

Total breached databases

On the 22nd of January 2018, the blood donating website onlinebloodbank.com was breached because of a horrible security overlook where an admin directory with the donors list was publicly accessible.
  • Data: Birthdates Blood Types Company Information Email Addresses Genders Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Records: 1,128,031
  • Lines: 29,328,818
  • Size: 833.44 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime in 2017, the online game Bin Weevils suffered a data breach. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as PeopleSoft(UID) hashes. In total, 6.9 million users were affected.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 6,968,952
  • Lines: 6,968,955
  • Size: 648.92 MB
  • Passwords: Hashed
  • Cracked: 0%
In August 2016, the Russian gaming site known as Пара Па (or parapa.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 4.9 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 5,030,536
  • Lines: 5,030,536
  • Size: 463.93 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 59%
In May 2017, the restaurant guide website Zomato, known for providing information and reviews on restaurants, reportedly suffered a data breach. The incident is said to have affected over 17 million users. Among the compromised data were email addresses, usernames, and salted MD5 password hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 16,476,801
  • Lines: 17,000,079
  • Size: 766.47 MB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 94%
In March 2021, the manga fan site MangaDex suffered a data breach that resulted in the exposure of almost 3 million subscribers. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was subsequently circulated within hacking groups.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 2,992,483
  • Lines: 2,992,556
  • Size: 249.46 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2016, Polish game developer CD Projekt RED suffered a data breach. The hack of their forum led to the exposure of almost 1.9 million accounts along with usernames, email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 1,871,469
  • Lines: 1,871,470
  • Size: 198.96 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 33%
In 2021, EsSalud, Peru’s social security system, experienced a significant data breach that reportedly exposed approximately 3.3 million records. The compromised data included names, birthdates, phone numbers, physical locations, genders, family member details, job information, government-issued IDs, tax identification numbers, social security numbers, and company-related information. No passwords were included in the breach.
  • Date: 2021
  • Country: Peru
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Birthdates Company Information Family Members Genders Government IDs Job Information Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Social Security Numbers Tax IDs
  • Records: 3,336,000
  • Lines: 3,343,782
  • Size: 1 GB
  • 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.