Breach Intelligence

3,356

Total breached databases

In March 2026, the hacker and extortion group "ShinyHunters" allegedly obtained a substantial corpus of data from ZenBusiness, a business formation and compliance platform. Reports suggest the data was exfiltrated from platforms including Snowflake, Mixpanel and Salesforce, and that the group threatened to publish it unless a ransom was paid. It has been reported that the data was publicly released the following month after no agreement was reached. The collection amounted to many terabytes across thousands of files originating from multiple business systems, including leads, support records and other CRM-related data. Approximately 1 million unique email addresses were exposed, often accompanied by names, phone numbers and geographic locations depending on the source file.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 28,121,094
  • Lines: 28,121,234
  • Size: 3.55 GB
  • Passwords: ?
In January 2026, the American automotive research and car-shopping platform Edmunds allegedly suffered a data breach that was attributed to the ShinyHunters group and subsequently published on a hacking forum. Reports suggest the exposed data included approximately 178,000 unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses, and passwords. It has been reported that some passwords were stored in plaintext while others were protected only with base64-encoded SHA-1 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 49,985
  • Lines: 50,000
  • Size: 10.8 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, SHA-1
In April 2026, the video hosting platform Vimeo allegedly suffered a data breach, which the ShinyHunters extortion group listed on their portal as part of a "pay or leak" campaign. Reports suggest the exposure stemmed from a compromise of Anodot, a third-party analytics vendor, and that Vimeo stated it did not include video content, valid login credentials, or payment card information. While the published dataset reportedly spanned hundreds of gigabytes of largely technical metadata, it has been reported that approximately 70,000 individuals were exposed through sales and CRM records, including email addresses, names, job titles, and company information. No passwords were included.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Job Information Company Information
  • Records: 204,167
  • Lines: 213,639
  • Size: 84.44 MB
  • Passwords: No
BuyUcoin 2021

BuyUcoin 2021

Sensitive
In December 2021, BuyUcoin, an Indian cryptocurrency exchange, allegedly suffered a data breach. It has been reported that the data of approximately 159,000 individuals was exposed, including email addresses, bcrypt-hashed passwords, phone numbers, names, genders, geographic locations, bank account information, and government-issued identity numbers such as PAN and Aadhaar.
  • Date: Dec 2021
  • Domain: buyucoin.com
  • Country: India
  • Category: Cryptocurrency
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Bank Account Information Government IDs Genders Tax IDs
  • Records: 159,074
  • Lines: 159,074
  • Size: 150.97 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In October 2020, the VPN provider LimeVPN allegedly suffered a data breach. LimeVPN was a commercial virtual private network service. Reports suggest the personal information of approximately 23,000 customers was exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses, order information, and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Order Information IP Addresses
  • Records: 572,720
  • Lines: 3,389,839
  • Size: 2.71 GB
  • Passwords: MD5 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
Sometime before April 2022, the web development and IT services company Cyber Matrix Solutions (cybermatrixsolutions.com), based in Noida, India, allegedly suffered a data breach of one of its database servers. Reports suggest the exposed phpMyAdmin dump contained the databases of many of the company's client projects — including content-management catalogues, job portals, CRMs and real-estate lead systems — exposing approximately 45,000 records spanning around 5,500 unique email addresses. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, full names, usernames, passwords (plaintext and hashed as bcrypt, MD5 and MD5Crypt), phone numbers, geographic locations, genders, dates of birth, job and company information, and passport identifiers.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Passports Genders Job Information Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 45,632
  • Lines: 3,230,374
  • Size: 259.52 MB
  • Passwords: Plaintext, BCrypt, MD5, MD5Crypt
In March 2023, the carding forum DarkPro (darkpro.net) allegedly suffered a data breach. DarkPro was an illicit online community centered on payment-card fraud and related cybercrime. Reports suggest that approximately 14,000 records were exposed, including email addresses, usernames, site activity timestamps, websites, geographic locations, bios, and bcrypt-hashed passwords.
  • Data: Email Addresses Geographic Locations Usernames Site Activity Websites Bios
  • Records: 27,440
  • Lines: 532,298
  • Size: 111.98 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • 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.