Breach Intelligence

6,875

Total breached databases

In September 2024, the Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile (IND, Chile's National Sports Institute) allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest the incident exposed approximately 1.7 million rows covering around 320,000 individuals, including email addresses, usernames, names, national RUT identifiers, dates of birth, genders, phone numbers and bcrypt password hashes. The most recent records date to August 2022, suggesting the data set predates its 2024 disclosure.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Usernames Government IDs Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Records: 1,721,876
  • Lines: 1,721,994
  • Size: 446.95 MB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 0%
In July 2024, MSI inadvertently exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records related to RMA claims, which were subsequently found to be publicly accessible. The breach included approximately 250,000 unique email addresses, along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and warranty claim information.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Site Activity
  • Records: 444,737
  • Lines: 592,493
  • Size: 77.59 MB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2024, the Municipality of Miraflores, a local government body in Peru, experienced a data breach. Reports suggest that the breach exposed approximately 82,995 user records. Among the compromised data were full names, identification documents, email addresses, phone numbers, and user creation dates.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Government IDs Site Activity
  • Records: 82,995
  • Lines: 83,058
  • Size: 15.28 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2024, the database for students of the Ministry of Education of El Salvador was reportedly leaked, exposing information on both current and former students. The breach involved 4,582,251 records. Among the compromised data were National Identification Numbers (NIE), full names, dates of birth, departments, institutions, and active enrollment statuses.
  • Date: 2024
  • Domain: mined.gob.sv
  • Threat Actor: CiberInteligenciaSV
  • Country: El Salvador
  • Category: Education
  • Data: Names Physical Locations Geographic Locations Government IDs Company Information Birthdates
  • Records: 4,682,266
  • Lines: 29
  • Size: 1.3 GB
  • Passwords: No
In 2021, the Russian content-exchange and text-uniqueness service Text.ru (text.ru) allegedly suffered a data breach. Text.ru is a copywriting marketplace and plagiarism-checking platform. Reports suggest the exposed user database contained approximately 3.5 million records. The compromised data allegedly included email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Geographic Locations Usernames IP Addresses
  • Records: 3,493,370
  • Lines: 3,494,464
  • Size: 736.12 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
In early 2023, Digitalproductkey, a platform specializing in software license sales, experienced a data breach. The breach exposed approximately 97,000 user records in a leaked CSV file containing personal and company-related information. Among the compromised data were user IDs, names, email addresses, company names, sales data, newsletter opt-in details, registration data, and last visit dates.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Genders Site Activity Company Information
  • Records: 97,485
  • Lines: 97,485
  • Size: 10.02 MB
  • Passwords: No
In 2024, the hacking group ByteMeCrew claimed responsibility for a data breach targeting On-Running, an international shoe brand. The attackers alleged that they obtained 220,000 lines of employee and customer data, including email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords.
  • Date: 2024
  • Domain: on-running.cn
  • Threat Actor: ByteMeCrew
  • Country: China
  • Category: E-commerce & Retail
  • Data: Email Addresses Passwords Names Phone Numbers Geographic Locations Genders Site Activity Job Information Birthdates
  • Records: 218,808
  • Lines: 236,234
  • Size: 115.39 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.