Breach Intelligence

2,852

Total breached databases

In late 2021, Cubitts, a British independent eyewear retailer operating at cubitts.com, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its customer database. Reports suggest approximately 170,000 individuals were exposed, with compromised data including email addresses, full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, account creation dates, and salted SHA-512 password hashes.
  • Date: 2021
  • Domain: cubitts.com
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 172,084
  • Lines: 172,223
  • Size: 26.77 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-512 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In 2022, AirAsia, a Malaysian low-cost airline, allegedly suffered a data breach affecting its internal crew and employee management systems. Reports suggest that approximately 7,000 employee records were exposed, including email addresses, plaintext passwords, SHA-1 password hashes, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, geographic locations, and employee usernames.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: airasia.com
  • Country: Malaysia
  • Category: Travel
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 7,007
  • Lines: 7,008
  • Size: 2.36 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1
  • Cracked: 73%
In May 2019, the Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma (Lawyers Order of Rome) allegedly suffered a data breach claimed by a group identifying as Anonymous Italy. The organization is the Italian bar association managing the professional registry and certified email (PEC) accounts for lawyers in Rome. Reports suggest approximately 38,000 individuals were affected, with exposed data including email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, phone numbers, addresses, Italian fiscal codes (codice fiscale), birthdates, and account activity records.
  • Date: May 2019
  • Threat Actor: Anonymous Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 41,933
  • Lines: 41,935
  • Size: 7.35 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2021, the Organismo de Acreditación Ecuatoriano (OAE), Ecuador's national accreditation body responsible for certifying laboratories and inspection agencies, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,200 user records were exposed, including email addresses, bcrypt password hashes, full names, usernames, phone numbers, government ID numbers (cédula and RUC), and account creation dates.
  • Date: 2021
  • Country: Ecuador
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Site Activity
  • Records: 2,206
  • Lines: 2,209
  • Size: 503.2 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 71051%
In 2021, the Organismo de Acreditación Ecuatoriano (OAE), Ecuador's national accreditation body operating at acreditacion.gob.ec, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 2,200 user records were exposed, including email addresses, full names, usernames, phone numbers, government ID numbers (CI/RUC), bcrypt-hashed passwords, and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Site Activity
  • Records: 2,206
  • Lines: 2,209
  • Size: 503.2 KB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2022, the Iraqi Parliamentary Observatory allegedly suffered a data breach. The Iraqi Parliamentary Observatory is an Iraqi government transparency platform tracking parliamentary members, sessions, and legislative activities for the Council of Representatives. Reports suggest approximately 1,000 records were exposed, including names, genders, birthdates, geographic locations, email addresses, and site activity.
  • Country: Iraq
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 1,115
  • Lines: 1,127
  • Size: 502.22 KB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2023, the Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud (IMJUVE), a Mexican federal government agency operating the youth platform at imjuventud.gob.mx, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data belonged to approximately 575 individuals and included email addresses, plaintext passwords, full names, geographic locations, government identification numbers (CURP), genders, birthdates, and site activity.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 575
  • Lines: 579
  • Size: 121.36 KB
  • Passwords: 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.