Breach Intelligence

6,142

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2026, a partial database from Campus France (campusfrance.org / toucan.campusfrance.org), the French government agency managing international student applications, was allegedly leaked and published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the export contained around 18,000 study-application records, exposing applicants' full names, email addresses, nationalities, chosen programs and institutions, and application dates. No passwords were included.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: campusfrance.org
  • Threat Actor: ChimeraZ
  • Country: France
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Site Activity Nationalities
  • Records: 18,637
  • Lines: 18,636
  • Size: 431.02 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before June 2026, the French regional employment platform Local'Emploi (localemploi.fr), which aggregates local job offers in the Paris-Saclay area for candidates and recruiters, allegedly suffered a data breach that was published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed data covered approximately 11,000 job seekers plus recruiter and company contacts, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal locations, dates of birth, and employer/company information. No passwords were included.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: localemploi.fr
  • Threat Actor: 0xSec
  • Country: France
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 26,930
  • Lines: 26,934
  • Size: 3.02 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2022, the nutrition and dietary-supplement online store SynergisticNutrition.com allegedly suffered a data breach. The store ran on the Magento e-commerce platform and its exposed customer records date back to 2011. Reports suggest approximately 23,000 customer records were compromised. The exposed data included customer email addresses, first and last names, account creation dates, some birthdates, and passwords stored as salted SHA-256 and salted MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 23,156
  • Lines: 23,157
  • Size: 3.02 MB
  • Passwords: Hashed, MD5 Salted, SHA-256 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before February 2026, WalutaTu (waluta.it), an Italian online platform providing certified market valuations for used cars, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data comprised roughly 41,000 records including vehicle listings (license plates, VINs, make/model, registration dates) and the associated customer and lead contacts — full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, Italian tax codes, IBANs, and dates of birth. No passwords were reported to have been exposed.
  • Date: Feb 2026
  • Domain: waluta.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: Automotive
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Bank Account Information Government IDs Company Information Birthdates License Plate Numbers Vehicle Information Registration Dates
  • Records: 37,427
  • Lines: 41,357
  • Size: 596.51 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2023, Centurion University of Technology and Management (cutm.ac.in), a private university in India, allegedly suffered a breach of its WordPress site database that was shared on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed `wp_users` table contained approximately 8,000 accounts, largely faculty and staff, including email addresses, usernames, display names, registration dates, and passwords hashed with WordPress phpass (with a subset of legacy MD5 hashes).
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: cutm.ac.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 7,976
  • Lines: 8,077
  • Size: 1.27 MB
  • Passwords: MD5, PHPass, WordPress
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2026, a staff directory of the Académie de Nice (ac-nice.fr) — the French national-education authority for the Nice academic region — was allegedly exposed in a data breach. Reports suggest data for approximately 23,000 records was released, drawn from an internal personnel directory. The exposed data included staff email addresses, names, job/role and department information, the school or administrative establishment of assignment, and (for a small subset) phone numbers and postal addresses. The dataset did not contain passwords.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: ac-nice.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Site Activity Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 25,389
  • Lines: 23,847
  • Size: 8.63 MB
  • Passwords: No
In January 2026, data from InWebsiteBuilder.com, a website-builder platform used largely by insurance agents, was allegedly leaked and published on hacking forums. Reports suggest the exposed export held social-login (Google/Facebook) account records covering roughly 2,600 unique users, including email addresses, first and last names, profile photo URLs, gender, locale, and OAuth account identifiers. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Usernames Government IDs Genders Site Activity Social Profiles Profile Photos Websites Languages
  • Records: 18,046
  • Lines: 18,048
  • Size: 3.89 MB
  • 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.