Breach Intelligence

6,142

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2022, NationsGlory (nationsglory.fr), a popular French Minecraft PvP server and game launcher, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the server's user database was extracted and shared on hacking forums. It has been reported that approximately 399,000 player records were exposed, including usernames, IP addresses, and account passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes.
  • Data: Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 399,070
  • Lines: 399,070
  • Size: 55.31 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2025, a contact database belonging to Cartogip (cartogip.fr), a French web-based geographic-information-system platform developed by GIP ATGeRi that provides mapping and geospatial services to local governments, was allegedly leaked on a hacking forum. Reports suggest approximately 1,200 contact records were exposed. The compromised data reportedly included the names, mobile and landline phone numbers, job titles, and affiliated organisations of the contacts, most of whom are officials of local municipalities in the Gironde region of France.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: cartogip.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 1,210
  • Lines: 1,209
  • Size: 303.96 KB
  • Passwords: No
In February 2026, a large database dump attributed to the Prefeitura de Fortaleza (fortaleza.ce.gov.br), the city government of Fortaleza in Ceará, Brazil, was allegedly published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the leak comprised dozens of municipal databases — including a housing and social-program registry and an OTRS support-ticketing system — exposing over 1.1 million records. The exposed data allegedly included full names, email addresses, phone numbers, Brazilian CPF national ID numbers, dates of birth, geographic/address information, and free-text support messages.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Government IDs Messages Birthdates
  • Records: 1,143,007
  • Lines: 13,661,204
  • Size: 10.49 GB
  • Passwords: No
In September 2025, a credential dump linked to the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE, cfe.gob.mx), Mexico's state-owned electric utility, was allegedly published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the data originated from information-stealer malware logs harvested from infected devices, and comprised approximately 91,000 captured login credentials. The exposed data reportedly included usernames and email addresses (many belonging to CFE employees on the cfe.mx domain) alongside their corresponding plaintext passwords and the application or website each credential was used for.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: cfe.gob.mx
  • Country: Mexico
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Records: 91,044
  • Lines: 91,544
  • Size: 7.02 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In May 2026, Colegio María Inmaculada, a Catholic school in Moravia, Costa Rica, allegedly suffered a ransomware attack. Reports suggest a threat actor exfiltrated internal files and later published them on a hacking forum. Among the exposed data were grade-level student rosters; approximately 360 individuals (students) were reportedly affected, with the recoverable structured data consisting of full names. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Names Geographic Locations
  • Records: 363
  • Lines: 279
  • Size: 101.45 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before July 2026, Saint-Herblain, a French commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its municipal staff directory (saint-herblain.fr). It has been reported that the directory was subsequently published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest approximately 1,200 municipal employees were exposed, including full names, work email addresses, internal usernames, job titles and departments, and office and mobile phone numbers. No passwords were included.
  • Date: 2026
  • Domain: saint-herblain.fr
  • Threat Actor: misere
  • Country: France
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Job Information
  • Records: 1,232
  • Lines: 1,233
  • Size: 173.92 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2025, SIMAK UNSIL (simak.unsil.ac.id), the academic information system of Universitas Siliwangi in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a student database was extracted from the platform and published on a hacking forum. It has been reported that approximately 22,000 student records were exposed, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, Indonesian national ID numbers (NIK), parents' names, and account passwords stored as MD5 hashes together with a set of recoverable plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Government IDs Family Members
  • Records: 22,968
  • Lines: 22,970
  • Size: 4.73 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, Plaintext

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.