Breach Intelligence

3,355

Total breached databases

Sometime before 2023, the Italian hotel and travel booking platform hosted at escape.tuscanycloud.it allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database, which also covered related Tuscany-based travel and e-commerce sites, contained roughly 100 individuals' records. The compromised data reportedly included email addresses, usernames, full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses, company details, tax identifiers, and passwords stored as BCrypt and MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses Tax IDs Company Information
  • Records: 1,797
  • Lines: 73,136
  • Size: 15.01 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In March 2023, the University of Iringa (uoi.ac.tz), a private university in Iringa, Tanzania, allegedly suffered a data breach of its Perfex CRM/ERP system. Reports suggest data belonging to approximately 500 individuals was exposed, including staff, contacts, and recruitment candidates. The exposed records reportedly included email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, IP addresses, genders, birthdates, places of birth, geographic locations, religions, company information, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
  • Date: Mar 8, 2023
  • Domain: erp.uoi.ac
  • Country: Tanzania
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders Religions IP Addresses Company Information Birthdates Places of Birth
  • Records: 3,475
  • Lines: 68,810
  • Size: 8.94 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before March 2021, the online store enmicraftroom.com allegedly suffered a data breach. En Mi Craft Room is a Spanish-language WordPress/WooCommerce store and e-learning platform selling craft, cardmaking and scrapbooking products and courses to a Spanish and Latin American audience. It has been reported that a database export dated March 2021 was exposed, affecting approximately 5,000 customers. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, physical addresses, and passwords stored as WordPress (phpass) hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Websites Company Information
  • Records: 9,339
  • Lines: 654,031
  • Size: 71.16 MB
  • Passwords: PHPass
  • Cracked: 0%
In November 2022, the French online store ERGC (ergc.fr) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest ergc.fr operated a PrestaShop-based e-commerce site selling refurbished and second-hand electronics and computer hardware. It has been reported that approximately 2,300 individuals were affected. The exposed data allegedly included email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, birthdates, genders, IP addresses, and passwords stored as MD5 and bcrypt hashes.
  • Date: Nov 13, 2022
  • Domain: ergc.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Genders IP Addresses Birthdates
  • Records: 5,021
  • Lines: 469,684
  • Size: 42.31 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before February 2023, epplink.net, a Chinese network-device authorization and WiFi management platform, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database contained approximately 19,000 records belonging to platform users, subscribers and administrators. The compromised data included email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, names, genders, IP addresses, company information, geographic locations and passwords stored in a mix of plaintext and hashed formats (MD5, salted SHA-512, salted MD5, BCrypt and PHPass).
  • Date: Feb 12, 2023
  • Domain: ycgsbz.com
  • Country: China
  • Category: Technology
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Genders IP Addresses Company Information
  • Records: 19,711
  • Lines: 1,214,755
  • Size: 122.4 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, MD5, MD5 Salted, SHA-512 Salted, BCrypt, PHPass
Sometime in or before 2022, the internal ERP system of Agence Emploi Jeunes (erp.emploijeunes.ci), Côte d'Ivoire's national youth-employment agency, was allegedly breached. Reports suggest data belonging to approximately 3,800 individuals was exposed, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, government-issued identification numbers, geographic locations, and BCrypt-hashed passwords for staff accounts.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Government IDs Genders Birthdates
  • Records: 7,320
  • Lines: 14,830
  • Size: 3.07 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before 2023, the hosting infrastructure of Eglogics Softmech, an India-based web development, software and digital-marketing agency, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the exposed database was a bundled server dump containing the agency's own website alongside dozens of client WordPress and CMS installations. It has been reported that approximately 120,000 individuals were affected, with the data including email addresses, usernames, names, and passwords stored in a mix of hashed formats (phpass, bcrypt, SHA-1, MD5) and, in some cases, plaintext.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Usernames
  • Records: 244,299
  • Lines: 3,248,579
  • Size: 2.23 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt, MD5, MD5Crypt, PHPass, SHA-1, 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.