Yesterday a hacked database of 25,460 Belgian email addresses appeared briefly on pastebin.ca. Our data breach spider indexed this leaked database before the post was removed.

The data we obtained did not contain passwords, only usernames and email addresses, however, the unknown hacker who published the data could well have obtained passwords and not published them in the release.

Analysis of the data revealed the following:

• 22% of records were Telenet.be email addresses
• 22% were Skynet.be addresses
• 3% were Pandora.be addresses
• and 3% were Scarlet.be addresses

The remaining records, we might assume, were lesser-known company domain names. We’re assuming they were company domain names as the most popular “First Name” record in the data was “Directie” (“Management” in Dutch).

Also, it appears that the most popular male name in Belgium is Marc … just in case you were wondering!

If you think you may have been part of this breach, check your email address here, or if you are a Belgium-based business, you can check your domain for breaches here to see if any of your company email addresses were involved in a breach.