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Monde du Voyage, Form Mail and others fall victim of data leaks.

27 February 2022
BREACHAWARE HQ
French

A total of 22 breach events were found and analysed resulting in 3,430,853 exposed accounts containing a total of 13 different data types of personal datum . The breaches found publicly and freely available included Monde du Voyage, Form Mail, General Video of America and Trans World News, DUESPEC and Lieux de Drague. Sign in to view the full library of breach events which includes, where available, reference articles relating to each breach.

Categories of Personal Data Discovered

Contact Data, Technical Data, Socia-Demographic Data, Financial Data, Social Relationships Data, Usage Data.

Data Breach Analysis

Among the affected organisations was Monde du Voyage, a French-language travel booking and tourism portal. Companies in the travel industry are increasingly being targeted due to their collection of high-value data, such as full names, passport information, travel itineraries, and payment credentials. In many cases, the breaches stem from legacy systems, insufficient encryption, or poorly configured web services exposed to the internet.

Another compromised entity was Form Mail, a form-processing tool often integrated into websites for customer communication or lead capture. These tools can be especially vulnerable if not properly secured or if hosted in environments that don’t implement robust authentication. Breaches of such services can result in the unintended leak of both contact details and potentially sensitive communication from users.

General Video of America and Trans World News were also part of this dataset. These media-related entities suggest vulnerabilities in online publishing platforms, particularly those with archival content or user account systems that may not have kept pace with modern security practices. Media outlets, especially smaller or legacy ones, can inadvertently retain user account data long after their active usage periods, making them soft targets for attackers.

Two other platforms, DUESPEC and Lieux de Drague, represent more niche or lifestyle-oriented sites. DUESPEC appears to relate to a specialised or organisational system (likely regional or member-based), while Lieux de Drague, which loosely translates from French to “Cruising Places,” is indicative of adult or discreet meetup orientated platforms. The presence of such platforms in the breach ecosystem elevates the sensitivity of the data involved, particularly in cases where user identities or affiliations could lead to reputational harm or social risk.

While the total number of affected accounts in this batch is lower compared to large-scale breaches, the diversity of the platforms involved makes this collection noteworthy. These are not mainstream services, which means many of them may have operated under the radar with limited security investment, yet they often collect highly identifiable data.

This breach set serves as a stark reminder that niche platforms, whether for booking travel, reading the news, interacting with adult content, or filling out basic web forms, are not beyond the scope of malicious actors. In fact, they may be even more at risk due to inconsistent oversight, lack of compliance with modern cybersecurity standards, and infrequent updates to underlying systems.

Users engaged in such platforms, especially those linked to lifestyle or identity-sensitive activities, should be particularly cautious. Reusing passwords, using real names in non-essential contexts, or supplying identifiable contact information across multiple services increases the chances of being affected when any one platform is compromised.

In the wider ecosystem of breach intelligence, these 22 events show how smaller, thematically focused platforms continue to contribute to the sprawling exposure of personal data online. While the impact may not be headline-grabbing at the macro level, for affected individuals, the risk of fraud, impersonation, or doxxing remains very real.

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