Breach Intelligence

6,139

Total breached databases

Sometime around 2023, Elephant Insurance (elephant.com), a US auto insurance provider serving several eastern and southern states, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest data belonging to approximately 1.8 million customers was exposed. The exposed data included email addresses, full names, dates of birth, phone numbers, physical addresses, driving license numbers, and credit-card billing details (cardholder name, billing address, and expiry), alongside a set of account records with bcrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Date: 2023
  • Domain: elephant.com
  • Country: United States
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Credit Card Information Government IDs Site Activity Birthdates Driving License Numbers
  • Records: 8,144,900
  • Lines: 8,144,901
  • Size: 1.3 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In early 2025, HOLT CAT (holtcat.com), the authorized Caterpillar heavy-equipment and engine dealer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, allegedly suffered a data breach attributed to the Cactus ransomware group. Reports suggest the exposed data included a CRM contact export of roughly 67,000 unique individuals. The compromised information reportedly includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and partial postal addresses. No passwords were present in the leaked data.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 191,471
  • Lines: 191,472
  • Size: 35.36 MB
  • Passwords: No
In October 2022, the Starbucks Malaysia gift-card and loyalty platform (card.sbux.com.my), operated by Berjaya Starbucks, allegedly suffered a data breach that was published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed database affected approximately 468,000 customers. It has been reported that the compromised information consisted primarily of email addresses (captured from account records and API request logs), along with gift-card and stored-value balance details; a small number of administrator accounts were also exposed with plaintext passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Geographic Locations Payment Information Balances Company Information
  • Records: 467,562
  • Lines: 2,963,161
  • Size: 552.01 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext
In February 2025, La Mutuelle des Motards (mutuelledesmotards.fr), a French mutual insurance company for motorcyclists, allegedly suffered a data breach attributed to a threat actor known as LuvResval. Reports suggest the exposed dataset contained roughly 1.34 million contact records, including around 160,000 unique email addresses. The compromised information reportedly includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and postal codes. No passwords were present in the leaked data.
  • Date: Feb 2025
  • Domain: mutuelledesmotards.fr
  • Threat Actor: LuvResval
  • Country: France
  • Category: Finance & Payments
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 1,338,105
  • Lines: 1,338,105
  • Size: 887.59 MB
  • Passwords: No
In May 2026, More Ideas General Trading LLC (moreideas.ae), a Dubai-based company operating as a business hub in the GCC region, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest a marketing database of approximately 631,000 customer email records was exposed. The compromised data allegedly consisted primarily of email addresses along with email-campaign send timestamps.
  • Date: May 2026
  • Domain: moreideas.ae
  • Country: United Arab Emirates
  • Category: Professional & Corporate
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 631,604
  • Lines: 631,605
  • Size: 75.58 MB
  • Passwords: No
In July 2025, Pajemploi, a service of the French social-security agency Urssaf (urssaf.fr) that handles administrative formalities for parents employing registered childminders and home childcarers, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest around 689,000 records of childcare workers were exposed. The compromised data allegedly included full names, French social-security numbers (NIR), dates and places of birth, genders, home addresses, and (partially masked) phone and bank details.
  • Date: Jul 14, 2025
  • Domain: urssaf.fr
  • Country: France
  • Category: Government
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Bank Account Information Government IDs Social Security Numbers Genders Salutations Site Activity Job Information Birthdates Places of Birth
  • Records: 689,415
  • Lines: 689,415
  • Size: 569.31 MB
  • Passwords: No
Sometime before 2025, Veleuciliste Velika Gorica (vvg.hr), a Croatian college, allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the breach exposed student and staff records for approximately 14,000 individuals. The exposed data allegedly included full names, email addresses, Croatian national identity numbers (JMBG/OIB), dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses and plaintext passwords.
  • Date: 2025
  • Domain: vvg.hr
  • Country: Croatia
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders Birthdates Education
  • Records: 20,611
  • Lines: 23,091,845
  • Size: 2.23 GB
  • Passwords: 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.