Breach Intelligence

3,151

Total breached databases

In September 2021, Argentina’s National Registry of Persons (RENAPER), the agency responsible for issuing national ID cards, reportedly suffered a significant data breach. The incident exposed the personal information of approximately 11,384,395 individuals. Among the compromised data were names, birthdates, genders, and government-issued ID numbers.
  • Date: 2021
  • Country: Argentina
  • Category: Government
  • Source: nulled.to
  • Data: Birthdates Genders Government IDs Names
  • Records: 11,384,393
  • Lines: 11,384,395
  • Size: 1.62 GB
  • Passwords: No
In September 2023, over 1M rows of data from the educational robots company Sphero was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 832k unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, dates of birth and geographic locations.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Geographic Locations Names Usernames
  • Records: 996,442
  • Lines: 1,001,767
  • Size: 275.8 MB
  • Passwords: No
A combination list of email:password was found in serval Telegram groups, probably as a result of credentials stuffing attacks.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords
  • Records: 952,466
  • Lines: 952,564
  • Size: 29.27 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
NNM-Club was created in 2005. It quickly gained popularity within the Russian-speaking community as a platform for sharing torrents and discussing various media-related topics. Over the years, it became a significant site for fans of anime, movies, music, and other forms of entertainment.
  • Date: 2013
  • Domain: nnm-club.ru
  • Country: Russia
  • Category: Piracy
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Site Activity Usernames
  • Records: 3,429,327
  • Lines: 3,429,427
  • Size: 1.66 GB
  • Passwords: ?
In August 2016, the World of Warcraft private server Paragon-Servers suffered a data breach that impacted 400k members. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as SHA-1($username.$pass) hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 400,063
  • Lines: 400,101
  • Size: 30.04 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 85%
In January 2019, the Indonesian career website Youthmanual suffered a data breach. The attack led to the exposure of data including Full names, Email addresses, Dates of birth, Phone numbers and Passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes. In total, 1.1 million users were affected.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Names Passwords Phone Numbers
  • Records: 1,111,133
  • Lines: 1,126,829
  • Size: 740.42 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 97%
In approximately August 2013, OwnedCore, a World of Warcraft exploits forum, allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed more than 880,000 accounts. The vBulletin-based platform reportedly leaked IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes, though the weak implementation allowed many of them to be quickly cracked.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 879,940
  • Lines: 880,022
  • Size: 76.66 MB
  • Passwords: vBulletin
  • Cracked: 92%

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.