Breach Intelligence

2,852

Total breached databases

In 2020, Shop.7xx.org, a Korean multi-merchant e-commerce platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that approximately 46,000 individuals were affected, with exposed data including email addresses, MD5 password hashes, full names, phone numbers, postal codes, Korean addresses, and usernames. The dataset also contains corporate account records with company names, tax IDs, and fax numbers.
  • Date: 2020
  • Domain: shop.7xx.org
  • Country: South Korea
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Company Information Fax Numbers
  • Records: 45,684
  • Lines: 45,690
  • Size: 7.09 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 1942%
At an unknown date, Meir Panim (meirpanim.org), an Israeli non-profit charity organization operating a network of free food centers across Israel, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 1,000 donor and supporter records were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, and usernames. No passwords were compromised.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 23,038
  • Lines: 23,088
  • Size: 2.95 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2015, middleeaststeel.com allegedly suffered a data breach affecting the website of Middle East Building Systems FZC, a pre-engineered steel building manufacturer based in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, UAE. Reports suggest the breach exposed records from multiple site forms including job applications, quote requests, and builder registrations, compromising approximately 421 individuals. The compromised data includes email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, employment information, company details, relationship statuses, genders, birthdates, and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Relationship Statuses Genders Site Activity Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 5,015
  • Lines: 5,027
  • Size: 1.77 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
Sometime before 2015, Femi-x (femi-x.hr), a Croatian website running Drupal CMS, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 2 user records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, Drupal password hashes, geographic locations, and language preferences.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: femi-x.hr
  • Country: Croatia
  • Category: Design
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Languages
  • Records: 3
  • Lines: 5
  • Size: 611 bytes
  • Passwords: Drupal
  • Cracked: 0%
At an unconfirmed date, the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health (pbghpa.com), a regional coalition of employers focused on group health-benefit and prescription-drug purchasing programs, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that approximately 700 individuals had their information exposed. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, geographic locations, and company information.
  • Domain: pbghpa.com
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Company Information
  • Records: 832
  • Lines: 844
  • Size: 136.39 KB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In 2008, RuneHQ (runehq.com), a popular fan site and guide database for the MMORPG RuneScape, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed data belonging to approximately 26,000 users, including usernames, email addresses, hashed passwords (MyBB format with per-user salts), and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 25,978
  • Lines: 25,989
  • Size: 1.98 MB
  • Passwords: MyBB
  • Cracked: 36%
In 2019, instagrad.org allegedly suffered a data breach. The site was a Russian-language social media marketing panel selling Instagram, YouTube, and VK engagement services. Reports suggest approximately 400 user accounts were exposed, including usernames, email addresses, MD5 password hashes, IP addresses, account creation dates, and user roles.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 698
  • Lines: 702
  • Size: 118.56 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%

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.