Breach Intelligence

3,377

Total breached databases

In December 2022, HispaShare (hispashare.club), a Spanish-language file-sharing community for movies and series, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data was published as a database dump containing approximately 170,000 user records. The compromised information reportedly included email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, site activity, and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity
  • Records: 170,602
  • Lines: 2,351,416
  • Size: 279.66 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-256
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before late 2022, the WordPress and WooCommerce database of hitesh.zorem.dev, a development site associated with the WooCommerce plugin developer Zorem/TrackShip, was allegedly exposed. Reports suggest the dump contained a small number of records covering roughly a handful of individuals, including email addresses, usernames, names, a PHPass password hash, website URLs and site activity data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames Site Activity Websites
  • Records: 12
  • Lines: 22,834
  • Size: 6.5 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime around 2015, the website of Hightec (hightec.ch), a Swiss company, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data originated from the site's TYPO3 content management system and included a small number of records, fewer than 50 in total. The compromised information allegedly included email addresses, usernames, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: hightec.ch
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 39
  • Lines: 54,221
  • Size: 17.53 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In August 2022, the Thai gaming website HighTech (hightech-th.com), an online shop selling game IDs, top-ups and related digital goods, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 2,600 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, geographic locations and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames
  • Records: 2,661
  • Lines: 5,814
  • Size: 651.26 KB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In January 2023, the French online food-ordering platform Helpyfood (helpyfood.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. Helpyfood provides online ordering, delivery, and management tools for restaurants and pizzerias in France. Reports suggest a full database dump containing records for approximately 550,000 customers was exposed. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, usernames, IP addresses, and passwords stored as plaintext, bcrypt hashes, and reversibly-encrypted values.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 760,810
  • Lines: 16,071,222
  • Size: 1.79 GB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, BCrypt, Unknown
Sometime before 2022, Hemporium (hemporium.it), an Italian online growshop selling hydroponics and indoor-gardening supplies, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed PrestaShop database contained approximately 34,000 records, including email addresses, names, MD5-hashed passwords, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, geographic locations, IP addresses and site activity.
  • Date: 2022
  • Domain: hemporium.it
  • Country: Italy
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders IP Addresses Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 40,520
  • Lines: 451,652
  • Size: 32.78 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2023, HelpForAssessment (helpforassessment.com) allegedly suffered a data breach. HelpForAssessment is an online academic assignment and essay-writing help service serving an international student audience. It has been reported that a database from the site was exposed, affecting approximately 2,700 individuals. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, site activity, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes alongside some plaintext values.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 11,287
  • Lines: 64,721
  • Size: 92.79 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, 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.