Breach Intelligence

5,431

Total breached databases

In November 2022, the Indian online shopping store Shaye (shaye.co.in), running on Magento, allegedly had a sales-order database exposed on hacking forums. Reports suggest orders covering approximately 35,000 unique customers were affected. The compromised data included email addresses, names, and geographic locations (billing and shipping addresses). No passwords were included in the leak.
  • Date: Nov 2022
  • Domain: shaye.co.in
  • Country: India
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Site Activity Geographic Locations
  • Records: 63,925
  • Lines: 63,987
  • Size: 18.42 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before November 2022, wiki-account.com, an Iranian WooCommerce online store, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained roughly 900 customer and user records. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, full names, phone numbers, usernames, order/billing details, and passwords stored as WordPress phpass hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity
  • Records: 1,849
  • Lines: 56,175
  • Size: 5.39 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In January 2023, a member database from store.snowpro.com — the online store of SnowPro / the Canadian Ski Instructors' Alliance (CSIA) — was allegedly exposed. Reports suggest the export contained approximately 9,000 member records. The compromised data reportedly included full names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal codes, countries, provinces/states, and membership group and registration details. No passwords were included in the export.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 9,089
  • Lines: 9,092
  • Size: 1.08 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime in or before 2022, an Italian web-hosting server operating under guardiacivica.it (also hosting the local directory and tourism portal dimmidove.com and related sites) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed data contained approximately 3,600 individual records drawn from user accounts, mailing lists, business and hospitality listings, and webmail systems, with much of the underlying data dating to 2009-2016. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, and passwords stored as plaintext and MD5-crypt hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations
  • Records: 12,752
  • Lines: 729,530
  • Size: 198.44 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5Crypt
In January 2020, the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund, dfb.de) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest approximately 18 million records were exposed, including email addresses along with MD5-hashed and plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations
  • Records: 25,819,705
  • Lines: 25,819,705
  • Size: 1.26 GB
  • Passwords: MD5, Plaintext
Sometime before January 2023, pulse.digital, a Swiss online service-marketplace platform connecting users with local professionals, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest data for approximately 400 users and service providers was exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, postal addresses, birthdates, site activity, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: pulse.digital
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 420
  • Lines: 132,411
  • Size: 10.15 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2022, a database backup from the Thai community site back-n.com allegedly suffered a data breach. The site ran SMF and phpBB forums alongside a small product catalogue. Reports suggest the exposed data affected approximately 330 individuals and included email addresses, usernames, display names, IP addresses, and passwords stored as SMF (SHA-1) and phpBB phpass hashes.
  • Date: Nov 2022
  • Domain: back-n.com
  • Country: Thailand
  • Category: Forums & Communities
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses
  • Records: 329
  • Lines: 23,786
  • Size: 6.55 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass, SMF
  • 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.