Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

Mercadazo.com.mx 2023

Mercadazo.com.mx 2023

Sometime in 2023, Mercadazo, a Mexican online store offering a wide range of products across categories like home goods, fitness, fashion, and electronics, suffered a data breach. A 250MB SQL file containing approximately 2.6 million rows, including data from around 8,500 users, was leaked online. The exposed information reportedly includes customer details such as first and last names, email addresses, hashed passwords, dates of birth, and newsletter preferences. Additional data fields suggest the leak may also include company names, customer IP addresses, and timestamps of registration and password changes.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Genders IP Addresses Names Passwords
  • Imported:
  • Number of lines: 2,635,483
  • Size: 242.73 MB
  • Passwords: ?

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.